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Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

14:00

@TheWanderer obviously he's a civil engineer. And through out my interaction with them, I can see that CE are not interested in programming at all. Basically each time I tutor a CE , they just want ze codez and that's it

So yeah . . . that pisses me off

Meanwhile, I've exam tomorrow, and we agreed to meet up again.

So I think I'm gonna give that guy ze codez and go on my merry way all the way to victory town to study EMF stuff

terdon

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy get used to it. I've had to teach people like that very often. The thing is, most people dont' care about programming and there's no reason a civil engineer would find it interesting. They want to learn how to build bridges, not programs. So I can understand why they don't care and only want something that works.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@terdon I understand that,too, but at least for the sake of passing the class maybe a little effort would be nice ?

terdon

When you don't care about what the class teaches, you just want to pass the damn thing and move on to the things you find interesting. It's one of the problems of teaching people subjects that are only tangentially related to what they are actually studying.

And if you think civil engineers are bad, try teaching 20 biologists how to write perl scripts.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Oh, I feel you there

Ionică Bizău

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Q: How to install grub on existing Lubuntu installation?

I have Lubuntu 16.04 on an USB flash. It kinda worked, but grub failed to be installed. Now I'm struggling to install grub. I'm in the live cd right now. Any ideas what I should do? I tried to mount the partition and run: grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda but this failes with The...

I asked this question ^ I'd really appreciate any suggestions!!!

terdon

14:05

Program: `Missing right curly or square bracket at /home/terdon/scripts/foo.pl line 4, at end of line`
Student: "Whaaaaaaaa it's not working, I have no idea why"
Terdon: *sigh*

@IonicăBizău Come on, give us something to go on! Are you chrooted? How did you mount the local drives? Hint: looks like you're not chrooted. Just follow the instructions here:

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A: How can I fix/install/reinstall grub?

So, it sounds like you have not installed a boot loader (e.g. grub) on the disk. This means that although you have a valid OS on it, there is no way to boot it and so you can't use it. You need to attach the HDD to a working computer (you can use a live CD), set up a chroot environment and insta...

Ionică Bizău

@terdon Exactly, not chrooted.

Thanks, will check that out.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@terdon Well, what would you suggest : git commit to teaching that guy today or just write ze codez and go focus on my exam ?

terdon

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Depends on i) exactly what your job is and ii) what the student wants.

Ionică Bizău

@terdon grub-install /dev/sdb fails with The program 'grub-install' can be found in the following packages:...

@terdon Should I run that when I'm in chroot?

And apt install grub fails with E: Package 'grub' has no installation candidate

terdon

Yes, everything needs to be run from the chroot environment.

Ionică Bizău

14:11

OK, how to solve that?

terdon

Run it from the chroot.

Ionică Bizău

This got so frustrating... :-( But I think if you solve it I'll give you a bounty

terdon

And are you sure the name of the grub package is just "grub"?

Ionică Bizău

The program 'grub-install' can be found in the following packages:
 * grub
 * grub2-common
 * lupin-support

terdon

OK.

Are you running everything from the chroot environment?

Ionică Bizău

14:13

I think it has internet connection issues... :-(

Yes

# ping google.com
ping: google.com: Temporary failure in name resolution

Any ideas?

It fails to access the packages too.

terdon

OK, then edit your question and add all this. I had no idea what you were doing from what your question said.

Ionică Bizău

@terdon This will sound bad, but I can't even edit the question.

terdon

Did you follow all the steps when doing the chroot? Did you mount the /dev directory?

Ionică Bizău

It's slow only on specific sites.

terdon

@IonicăBizău ?

Ionică Bizău

14:14

Yes.

terdon

What is, the live system?

Ionică Bizău

When not chrooted it works fine.

It's Lubuntu 16.04 live cd

terdon

Then exit the chroot, edit your question and add all this information.

cl-netbox

Hello :)

Ionică Bizău

@terdon I cannot do that because askubuntu is terribly slow in the browser.

terdon

14:15

@IonicăBizău Didn't you say it works fine when not chrooted?

Ionică Bizău

@terdon Yes, but that's in terminal, not in the browser.

I'm trying to edit the question.

Maybe the upload speed is terribly slow, have no idea...

mount --bind /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/foo/etc/resolv.conf solved the internet in chroot

Doing apt update.

@terdon OK, so that command you suggested failed like this:

Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Unknown partition table signature
Unknown partition table signature
Unknown partition table signature
Unknown partition table signature
Unknown partition table signature
The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.

terdon

@IonicăBizău nice

Ionică Bizău

@terdon So, how to solve this?

terdon

Is your /boot a separate partition?

Ionică Bizău

(sorry, updating the question just hangs)––will do that once I'm home

Hmm, to be honest I don't know...

How can I check?

I don't think so.

terdon

14:25

@IonicăBizău df /boot

Ionică Bizău

# df /boot
Filesystem     1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1      477863704 2650432 450869364   1% /

terdon

OK, it isn't a separate partition.

Ionică Bizău

So, now what would be the next step?

(I'm doing this for a friend and the evening is slowly coming... :/ )

terdon

What do you have in /boot/grub/grub.cfg?

Ionică Bizău

It's a long file. Should I paste it here?

gist: 30e9621d9c4134704e5d393a8358d408, 2017-04-09 14:28:36Z

gistfile1.txt

terdon

14:30

Is this EFI?

Ionică Bizău

I feel that's the issue: I guess it's related to bios legacy booting...

But I have no idea where to set that.

I didn't see anything in BIOS about it...

How can I check if it's EFI

terdon

Might be, might not. I don't even use grub anymore myself, I just use systemd-boot.

Ionică Bizău

So, can that be an alternative?

terdon

@IonicăBizău ls /boot is there an EFI partition?

Ionică Bizău

I'm really bad in this... :-(

Lubuntu was saying that I have to install grub or an alternative.

terdon

14:32

But also, what exact command are you running. Is it still grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda from the chroot?

Ionică Bizău

@terdon That wasn't from the chroot

terdon

What are you running from the chroot then?

Ionică Bizău

@terdon I followed your steps and run the grub commands from chroot.

Before your answer, I didn't use chroot.

terdon

OK, so you ran sudo grub-install /dev/sda from the chroot?

Ionică Bizău

Exactly

terdon

14:34

And you also ran sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg before that?

Ionică Bizău

Yes, that went fine.

terdon

Damn then. Don't really know what else to try.

Ionică Bizău

Should I try systemd-boot?

terdon

When you manage to connect, please update the question. Someone with more EFI-fu might be able to help.

@IonicăBizău You could. Systemd can boot EFI systems (of course, it does everything else). But I can't really walk you through it. I did it once by following the Arch wiki but that's all I know of it.

Ionică Bizău

Oh, I see.

Thanks for suggestions!

terdon

14:36

Good luck!

Ionică Bizău

Thanks

terdon

By the way, that seems like a very common error so also check the dozens of google results for it.

Ionică Bizău

I'm doing that... but can't understand them... :-(

Anwar

that whole killing process or sacrificing child seems to be a bug. Now repacked stock xenial kernel and installed. Should not happen again if they were right

Anwar

15:07

nah. happened again :(

Byte Commander

@terdon How is gummiboot compared to GRUB? Wikipedia and Arch Wiki read like it is pretty minimal.

its installation and configuration reads pretty complicated though, whereas GRUB just worked™ for me

terdon

15:22

It is pretty minimal, yes. But the installation was very painless for me. Everything basically worked. In contrast, I had a lot of trouble getting grub to play nice with my EFI install.

Zanna

GRUB is a diva...

TheWanderer

guh

why am I so tired

Zanna

not enough sleep?

anaemia?

TheWanderer

uh

Seth

15:57

@fossfreedom is there no budgie-desktop package in the repos I can install?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: what is "kernel–user space API"?

I am studing about apparmor. And to be more specific, for the "hats" inside the policy. In here [Apparmor Profile Language] says for "hats" that, it calls change_hat API. Can you explain the difference between the "kernel–user space" API and the "kernel internal" API? And which of these 2 differe...

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Seth

16:26

aha, 16.10 has a budgie-desktop package.

TheWanderer

yehs

still no window switcher though

WinEunuuchs2Unix

16:55

Fixed broken suspend where waking to black screen for last 3 days... Why does suspend work perfectly for months and then just decide to die one day???

After many attempts of trying one thing, reboot, try one thing, reboot I stupidly changed 4 things rebooted and it worked. Now I don't which exact thing fixed it :(

cl-netbox

@WinEunuuchs2Unix What are the 4 things you changed ? Hi Rick ! :) Good afternoon ! :)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Well I wrote notes but I missed a step in my notes hang on...

- Try changing nvidia from 304.135 to 375.39 proprietary driver.
- Run `sudo apt update` and `sudo apt update`
- Run `rm-kernels` and remove 10 older kernels

Note ^^^ I've had daily Ubuntu changed to "every two weeks" for awhile now.

@cl-netbox "Hi :) long time no chat"

cl-netbox

@WinEunuuchs2Unix Yeah indeed ... well, I think the suspend thing is a graphics drivers problem in combination with the kernel version being in use - which NVIDIA GPU do you have ?

WinEunuuchs2Unix

My GPU is GeForce GT630M (second version with faster ram and newer lib)

TheWanderer

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy ONI STREAM

WinEunuuchs2Unix

17:05

@cl-netbox I did a 3 hour project that helped me get 10K (yeah!) which you might be interested in: askubuntu.com/questions/901393/…

cl-netbox

@WinEunuuchs2Unix okay - 304 drivers are wrong ... 370 or 375 or 378 are correct - which kernel do you use ?

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I use various kernels... I had tried booting 4.4.0-71 and 4.9.17 during failed attempts... last boot after successful changes was using 4.9.17.

cl-netbox

@WinEunuuchs2Unix WOW more than 10000 points now ! CONGRATS ! Well done Rick ! :) +15 additional points from me for that ! :)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@cl-netbox Thank you very much :) It's surprising how a cute little 3 hour project generates so many votes. My 3 week project I thought everyone in this room could use for the scripts they post in AU answers would be admired but it got ZERO INTEREST. Indeed muru and terdon thought it should be moved to a different site: askubuntu.com/questions/900319/…

cl-netbox

@WinEunuuchs2Unix use the default ubuntu hwe-kernel in case you are on 16.04 and install nvidia-370 from GPU drivers PPA ... then suspend should work ! :)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

17:10

@cl-netbox You missed the point... SUSPEND IS WORKING now. 375 driver proprietary is being used.

cl-netbox

@WinEunuuchs2Unix Well, then leave it as it is ... :)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

:)

cl-netbox

@WinEunuuchs2Unix for me the opposite is surprising ... sometimes I spend a lot of time to address serious issues and often get them solved - unfortunately the answers and solutions don't get many upvotes :(

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Lots of people tell me how complex solutions get little votes whilst one-liners and the like get many votes shrugs

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@TheWanderer who ?

TheWanderer

17:20

mark

cl-netbox

Hi @SergiyKolodyazhnyy ! :) In 5 five hours your exam starts - correct ?

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@cl-netbox no, tomorrow

WinEunuuchs2Unix

We all know so much about Serg's life we should rename this room "@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Diary"

cl-netbox

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy means in about 29 hours ? :)

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

something like that

Byte Commander

17:23

@WinEunuuchs2Unix and you don't get the strange rainbow borders with 375?

I'm happily on 381 now.

cl-netbox

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy okay ... good that I asked ... unnecessary fingers crossing avoided ! :D Now I know when exactly I have to start it ... :)

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

I'm gonna have to go write that stupid C program for my student, if I want the time to study for my own stuff

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@ByteCommander Umm... I don't actually use nvida... after selecting the driver I use "nvidia-prime intel" or whatever the option is.

Byte Commander

uh... ok

why did you buy the card then if you don't use it?

cl-netbox

@WinEunuuchs2Unix so you disabled NVIDIA - no wonder that suspension works ... hahaha

WinEunuuchs2Unix

17:26

Let me explain why I installed it in the first place... I have a conky script that displays nvidia GPU Mhz, Memory Mhz, Temp and Threshold Temp... I just wanted the conky display to be more cool. The conky display isn't getting the nvidia information though, probably because Intel i915 driver is utilized.

cl-netbox

@ByteCommander those are still beta ... but if they work, okay. Good evening ! :)

Byte Commander

Wait... wat? You installed an nvidia card to get some more graphs in your system monitor?

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Well no, I contemplated running games too but I only have one trilogy of windows games so far... it's not graphs,,, text fields in conky... and yes I like to do stuff like that peak into system internals :)

^^^ notice Conky nVidia fields are all null

every few months when I'm in between bash coding projects I try to get nVidia working again... I've even posted a bounty once to get a SE Winter Carnival hat.

With this room running, 8 open chrome tabs and Project M audio-visualizer running with VLC playing music CPU utilization with i915 driver (Intel HD4000 graphics) is only 5% so I have no practical reason for using nVidia.

Thomas Ward

i need to know what that overlay is. tell me

WinEunuuchs2Unix

sorry.... what's an overlay???

Byte Commander

17:38

It's conky, which I never understood how to set up

cl-netbox

@ThomasWard even more interesting would be to know why he is not on 16.04.2 ! :D :D :D

WinEunuuchs2Unix

That's a very old picture though

Thomas Ward

heh

WinEunuuchs2Unix

^^^ current picture

cl-netbox

@WinEunuuchs2Unix ah ... looks much better ! :D :D :D

WinEunuuchs2Unix

17:40

notice sunrise and sunset at bottom. Used by display-auto-brightness app written for byte's question.

cl-netbox

@WinEunuuchs2Unix nice, nice :)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Thanks but I think it pales in comparison to what the professional conky hobbiests make in ubutnu forums.

cl-netbox

@WinEunuuchs2Unix no, I think it looks quite professional ! :)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I use the vnStat totals at the bottom to monitor my 150GB / month ISP plan to make sure I'm not watching too much HTML5 youtube news in the month.

I used to have youtube running all weekend and not even paying attention to it... that burns up GB's

cl-netbox

@WinEunuuchs2Unix that's a good point ... can't you get a flat rate from your ISP ? I have one which costs only 30 Euro each month and have unlimited internet usage. :)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

17:54

Mine is 150 GB and it's $63 CAD which is about €50 EUR

cl-netbox

@WinEunuuchs2Unix hmmm ... quite expensive :(

WinEunuuchs2Unix

There are two major ISP's cable company SHAW and tv company TELUS and they are about same price.

Canada lacks competition and regulators you see in USA and Europe.

cl-netbox

@WinEunuuchs2Unix yeah, that's exactly the reason : not enough competition ! anyway, have to go now ... see you next time around - goodbye :) Congrats for passing 10K again ! :)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@cl-netbox Thanks :) Have a good night.

cl-netbox

@WinEunuuchs2Unix Same for you ! :) Bye :)

Rinzwind

18:00

@WinEunuuchs2Unix netherlands... we basically have 2 1 using cable and the other using telephone network

and the one doing cable is owned by the same company that owns HBO sooooooo the telephone network does not have HBO unless you pay where the other one offers it as part of the normal pricing

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Plus we both have a queen... or at least you used to have Queen Beatrice... We have Queen Elizabeth.

@Rinzwind Identical to canada

Rinzwind

we have a King :=)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I remember hearing that but forgot his name Willem?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Which tmpfs to use?

When I run df | grep tmpfs | sed "s/[0-9]/*/g" I get tmpfs ******* **** ******* *% /run tmpfs ******* *** ******* *% /dev/shm tmpfs **** * **** *% /run/lock tmpfs ******* * ******* *% /sys/fs/cgroup t...

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Rinzwind

Nier Automata is a weird game. 1st save spot is behind the 1st boss and death means to reload from the beginning. Plus when you finish the game 3 times you get a shop... where you can buy Throphies :D

@WinEunuuchs2Unix yes

Willem Alexander

WinEunuuchs2Unix

18:04

@Rinzwind Emperor of Japan wants to renounce throne like Queen Bea did but constitution changes have to be approved first.

Rinzwind

I read that somewhere yes :)

Ill be back going for another attempt of nier

Android Dev

Wow, I had no idea WINE was so efficient! Just for grins, I ran the Cinebench CPU benchmark in WINE, and I got almost the same score as running it in Windows 7!

WinEunuuchs2Unix

18:20

WINE uses Windows XP compatibility mode right? In Windows 7 that might be faster too.

To make game run in Windows 8.1 I had to set Windows XP compatibility mode.

Seth

what the bleep. the dd-wrt forums just sent me my password in plaintext. YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER!!!

you guys aren't idiots.

that really makes me want to go on a swearing tirade in their forums.. but I'll resist.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@Seth no, they are idiots. Any website/organization that distributes passwords in plain text probably deserves that title

Seth

fair enough.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

18:36

Sometimes it's hard to believe it's 2017 outside. People do stupid stuff that would be understandable in the 1980s, 1970s because nobody cared about security back then. Nowadays with literally daily reports of companies being hacked and data of millions of customers compromised , we still hear of stories like that where an organization just bluntly ignores safety of user's private data

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@Seth Lots of peeps swearing in systemd forums... ;)

Android Dev

19:01

Uhg!

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Q: If Android is Linux distibution, why then ubuntu dont't support .apk files?

As I said. Please answed mine question Thanks.

16.04 android

I hate those kind of questions --^

And now we get questions about how to make a hackintosh???

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Q: How do i install os x on my ubuntu 16.04 laptop?

Okay so i've been scouring the internet, but i've yet to find a guide that shows how to install os x (hackintosh) on a laptop with ubuntu 16.04 already installed. I've been using this 16.04 for over a year now, so you can imagine that i've made so many configurations and installed so many softwa...

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RolandiXor

19:25

strawpoll.me/12696619/r - Vote on the name of the main Unity fork.

3

Zanna

can you make that one message so we can star it ^ ?

RolandiXor

BTW @Seth I think if Canonical/M.S. are honest, Unity was dropped because it wasn't profitable - not because the community saw their work as fragmentation. And, the only reason the community saw their work as fragmentation... is because it was. And, it involved a lot of ignoring user requests for extended periods, not realizing that the core of Ubuntu's user base is actually the regular, everyday user (not people who need stuff like Landscape), and these are the ones they let down the most

...through lack of customization options, ignoring certain feature requests because they just simply "didn't fit the vision" (what vision?), etc.

Seth

I don't think that's the case, personally.

RolandiXor

@Zanna done

Seth

although it's true desktop users got the short end of the stick, again.

RolandiXor

19:31

Desktop users have been left behind for a while, but it's only those who were really paying attention (but not very vocal) who noticed that, it seems.

A lot of people gave up on Ubuntu and went to Mint and other distros (even Arch-based distros), not because of Unity per se (though it played a role), but because the general experience became stagnant, and honestly, it must have felt like they were speaking to deaf ears at times. I'm not trying to just be negative, to be clear, I just think that going forward, the "powers that be" need to really take a look at where they went wrong (and continue to go wrong).

Seth

well dropping Unity was just another bad move in that direction, IMO. Although I understand why it was made.

RolandiXor

I feel sorry for the people who will lose their jobs :(

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Add scound Linux OS dual with Centos 7

I have been trying to add a second OS Ubuntu 16.04.2, actually I have installed Centos 7 as primary os. I download the ISO file of Ubuntu and load it to USB drive using the DD. I tried to boot from the USB using the grub2 terminal without success. now i am trying to load the ISO from my hard...

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Rinzwind

does unity-tweak-tool have 1 file it saves changes to?

Seth

19:47

@Rinzwind nope. 99% of the changes are made to dconf.

Rinzwind

ok thanks

next question .... >:)

Seth

A way to save and restore changes was in the planes, but with Unity's demise I don't think we'll end up developing it.

Rinzwind

does dconf have 1 file to save things into?

nathy!

Seth

@Rinzwind that I don't know. I think not.

Rinzwind

Ill find out

Zanna

19:48

yeah it does, I believe

it's a binary file though

Byte Commander

@Rinzwind ~/.config/dconf/user

Rinzwind

byty! :-)

Zanna

that's the one

Byte Commander

That word looks like it desperately misses an "e"...

Rinzwind

answered >:)

Zanna

19:54

@RolandiXor starred and voted :)

TheWanderer

it is so nice outside

Rinzwind

@Anwar check + upvoted

Kaz Wolfe

20:12

someone is forking unity?

TheWanderer

everyone is

it's so "in" right now

Kaz Wolfe

like, unity 7?

or just unity 8

TheWanderer

8

Kaz Wolfe

damnit

TheWanderer

lol

Kaz Wolfe

20:13

i just want someone to fork unity 7 and add good notifications.

TheWanderer

hahah nooo

like that'll ever happen

Kaz Wolfe

that's it. i'll be perfectly happy with unity 7 + good notifications.

TheWanderer

just go KDE

Kaz Wolfe

but mah hud

TheWanderer

ur wat

Kaz Wolfe

20:15

my HUD

Jacob Vlijm

So, what did we vote for?

TheWanderer

which one

@JacobVlijm Trump

oh wait

:p

@KazWolfe STOP BLINKING

Jacob Vlijm

@TheWanderer YouTrumpy?

TheWanderer

wat

Jacob Vlijm

Younutty?

Kaz Wolfe

20:16

that sounds... nevermind.

Jacob Vlijm

Who knows?

Chan-Ho Suh

hmm I think I spent over 4 hours setting up a CI deployment for a blog that I don't actually post on

but IF I were to blog... it would be just a smooth ride from now on :)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: fcitx fails to start to use

I have installed fcitx to input Chinese method in my ubuntu 16.04 but it fails to start. panda:~$ (WARN-25191 /build/fcitx-PSoVA1/fcitx-4.2.9.1/src/lib/fcitx-config/fcitx-config.c:172) missing value: Name (INFO-25191 /build/fcitx-PSoVA1/fcitx-4.2.9.1/src/lib/fcitx/addon.c:151) Load Addon Conf...

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TheWanderer

lol @Chan-HoSuh

Chan-Ho Suh

actually it was a real pain in the butt... to set up Travis CI, I even had to fix my ruby gems install, which was apparently broken all this time (shows how important that is to me)

Zanna

20:34

just answered a 4 year old question...

python could do a nice easy job on that one too I think

WinEunuuchs2Unix

20:48

^^^ That's like an invite for dueling Python scripts from our friends Jacob and Serg ;)

Zanna

Serg can pick up the gauntlet and write an answer for tcsh or something

Chan-Ho Suh

should be straightforward in Python... feels very much like something I do in one variation or another at work...

Zanna

exactly, it is simples... why is it unanswered?

Chan-Ho Suh

lol

Alex

hi guys
has anyone here used a vps before?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

21:03

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Q: Intellij not Loading on Docky with Wrong Icon Name

Updated Intellij today to 2017.1 and it works fine but when trying to load it from Docky it won't startup. It works perfectly fine on the Unity Launcher and if I click the super key and manually type in intellij and click the icon there it works as well. The name of the intellij icon when hover...

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Byte Commander

@Alex it might help if you ask your actual question. Nobody is going to raise their hand as long as they don't know what will be expected from them.

People are shy. Even online people

Alex

ok, I get you.
I purchased a vps and I wanted to instal linux and cpanel on it. however, since I never used a vps before, I'm not sure if the operating system instal has been done correctly.
was looking for some small guidance

Seth

what specifically?

Alex

the vps control panel is solusvm.
i loged and then clicked on 'reinstal' and selected the OS I wanted, then pressed continue and it showed a message saying that the install had been started and it should take about 10 minutes
is this all I have to do to instal the OS? I saw some videos where they would get an actual interface for doing the instal, rather than command line

Byte Commander

21:24

When it says so, I guess there should be some truth behind it.

Seth

22:15

anyone know anything about IPv6?

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Q: Hosts connected to DD-WRT router running radvd get IPv6 addresses but can't communicate

I'm trying to get IPv6 working on my local network. I know my ISP (Comcast) supports it because anything connected to the modem/router combo I rent from them gets assigned an IPv6 address and communicate using the protocol (can connect to ipv6.google.com and gets 20/20 on http://test-ipv6.com/)....

networking wireless-networking router dd-wrt ipv6

Nathan Osman

22:34

Do we have a generic "I can't hear sound" question?

Because I can't hear sound.

:P

Seth

You're deaf?

Try Health.

Nathan Osman

Nononononono :P

I mean my speakers aren't making any noise.

I confirmed that everything is physically correct because Windows makes sound.

And pavucontrol is showing audio being played.

But I can't hear it.

I've adjusted the volume in every possible way I can think of, including alsamixer.

(This is Ubuntu 16.04 on a laptop if that helps.)

Seth

sounds like a question.

Nathan Osman

It does, but don't we have one already?

I can't believe I'm the first user with no sound :P

Wait a sec...

I don't see pulse at all in "ps aux"...

And yet:

$ pulseaudio
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.

Stale pid file perhaps?

Seth

time to look at the source..

Nathan Osman

22:45

It starts if I do "pulseaudio --kill" first.

But still no sound :/

Time to start a question, I suppose...

Nathan Osman

23:04

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Q: Can't hear sound from my speakers - any ideas?

I have a Dell Inspiron N5110 that won't play sound. To be more specific, I can't hear any sound from the speakers when running Ubuntu 16.04. I also dual boot Windows 7 on the machine and sound works fine there. Here is an exhaustive list of screenshots, command output, and troubleshooting inform...

sound pulseaudio alsa

WinEunuuchs2Unix

23:34

@NathanOsman For my Inspiron 17R 7720 SE using Intel 7 Audio Chipset (1 generation newer than yours) I had to make sure my Dell drivers were up to date for BIOS and Windows from their website to improve things all over. This might help you too: dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/…

Seth

HAVE I EVER MENTIONED HOW MUCH I HATE WINDOWS? CAPS LOCK IS STUCK FOR SOME REASON AND THE ON-SCREEN KEYBOARD IS FROZEN SO I CAN'T USE THAT TO TURN IT OFF.

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WinEunuuchs2Unix

I wonder if you can hold the shift key to type lower case?

Chan-Ho Suh

good idea

is Seth kidding around though?

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I don 't think he's kidding

And it's a bad idea I had as a solution... I was just curious :)

Chan-Ho Suh

taping down the shift key is not a bad idea... typing in lowercase is probably more acceptable

WinEunuuchs2Unix

23:49

I must say in all my decades of using Windows that particular problem hasn't happened to me.

Chan-Ho Suh

Windows has evolved

it used to blue screen on you but not on purpose.. now it restarts on purpose while you're trying to do something. How things change but don't change.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Actually after hearing Bash For Windows was created I've become more optimistic.

Now I'm redoubling my bash learning efforts here in hopes of porting them to Windows in 18 months.

Chan-Ho Suh

huh, well good for you

why 18 months?

Seth

I'M NOT KIDDING

ALSO THE ONSCREEN KEYBOARD UNFROZE BUT IT STILL DIDN'T TURN IT OFF, AS YOU CAN TELL. GUESS I'LL HAVE TO TRY REBOOTING IT.

RobotHumans

@Chan-HoSuh Missed you a little buddy.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

23:58

18 MONTHS OOPS CAPS LOCK ON... I was doing some Nautilus scripts coding there... as I was saying 18 months is when I plan on buying the best laptop today at 1/3 to 1/4 the price in the future. It will no doubt have Windows 10 on it.

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