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Byte Commander

00:00

Urgh, same address bars

They look normal while the page is loading but blow up as soon as it's finished

Meh, the BlackFox theme seems to fix it...

Not the one I wanted, but okay enough

Anybody else on Firefox 55.0.1?

Are your address bars also bloated once the site finished loading?

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Q: How to execute a file that begins in the middle of the file

Basically I have a file that needs to be executed, but the executable starts at 300(hex) bytes into the file. How would I execute this file without modifying it(Taking away the first 300h bytes)?

Byte Commander

00:15

My / is 93% full...

How annoying

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00:33

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Q: Me-too post? Or partial answer?

Where do we draw the line between "I'm having the same problem, too" posts and partial answers? This answer and its comments are what have motivated me to ask this. But I'm hoping for a general answer to this question, too, if it's reasonable to have one. As Zanna pointed out, our official help...

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Q: What to do when another person's question marked as a duplicate isn't really a duplicate?

I was recently writing a script where I needed to be able to present a list of currently connected USB storage devices for user selection. I searched for a way to list connected storage devices, and found this question (call it question A) which is marked as a duplicate of another question (call ...

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Q: Can a bounty be redacted?

I could swear there was a 500 point bounty on this question: How to fix Bang and Olufsen Audio for HP laptops? ...and I could swear I saw it go into a 9 hour grace period last night. But upon looking at it tonight I don't see the slightest hint there was ever a bounty on the question. Which beg...

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Q: Debian not logged in with proper password after upgrade

Just after upgrade my system start to fail when I try to login as normal user both via gdm and tty. However it's not possible to login as root too. When try to login via tty it outputs 'Login Incorrect'. Via the gdm the same but another words used. I've changed passwords with live cd but it's not...

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Byte Commander

08:48

^ both gone

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09:06

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Q: How to Increase the Pool file system for BackupPC

I've implemented BackupPC at work for our backup server running Ubuntu 16.04. I've correctly configured it, and I have 3 hosts I would like to backup. However, 1 of the hosts is taking forever to backup. The total size of the host is 882GB in size, compare that to another host I have backed-up su...

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Byte Commander

10:04

Relevant question about Ubuntu on Security.SE:

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Q: Isn't Ubuntu's system prompt for my password spoofable?

Sometimes, Ubuntu shows the following window: This window can be caused by some background processes running, such as an automatic update, or a process which reports bugs to Canonical which manifests itself this way: Since those are background processes, the first window is not shown in res...

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Just felt like sharing that here. It's in the HNQ anyways, but twice doesn't hurt.

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Q: Changing the default fallback substitution fonts in Linux ubuntu cyrillic

In VIM need correct view cyrillic font. But NERD fonts, not support cyrillic. How to set default cyrillic font in system? P.S: ubuntu 17.04, 16.04

linux ubuntu vim fonts vimrc

Dɑvïd

11:38

Does anyone know if there's a "point release" for Ubuntu Gnome 17.04? I'm having some issues with a Live-USB of 17.04, and the issues seem to have been "fixed" - so is there a later release? (I've looked, and can't find one...) Thanks!

(The issues relate to DNS, so running update isn't a help for this at this stage.)

TheWanderer

@Dɑvïd at this point, most people are just going back to 16.04

Byte Commander

Only LTS versions have point releases AFAIK, because the 9 months a normal release is supported don't really justify one anyway.

And if there were any, you would find them here: releases.ubuntu.com/17.04

Dɑvïd

@ByteCommander Thanks -- which is where I looked. ;) Just thought I'd make sure, from People Who Know. :)

Eliah Kagan

Yeah, point releases are just for LTS. wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Dɑvïd

@TheWanderer Interesting. I may well just do the same. LTS > LTS upgrades have been pretty reliable for me in the past. Thanks.

Eliah Kagan

11:50

@Dɑvïd If they fixes are released for 17.04 and the goal is to get them on a live USB, you could either make a live USB with a persistent area and install the updates or (the cooler option) make a custom ISO image with the updates applied.

LiveCDCustomization and How to customize the Ubuntu Live CD? may help.

user136984

Aww...

user136984

So cute! :D

user136984

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Rinzwind

13:03

@ByteCommander the normal versions ARE the point release ;-)

well their hardware stack

@Dɑvïd bugs should trickle back from new releases (?) otherwise install 17.10 if you do not use your system for critical things

Ihave been using 17.10 for weeks now and works like a charm

cl-netbox

13:40

Hello :)

karel

13:53

@Rinzwind I need one more vote to reopen this question: askubuntu.com/questions/806107/remove-mariadb-mysql-databases which was closed for being unclear, however you posted the accepted answer to it which has multiple upvotes.

Rinzwind

it aint closed :P

cl-netbox

@karel I've done it for him ! :D

@Rinzwind hahaha

Rinzwind

boxy!

cl-netbox

RINZY ! :)

@Rinzwind +1 for your answer ! :)

Rinzwind

ofcourse :=)

cl-netbox

14:02

@Rinzwind of course ??? In German it would have been : Vielen Dank (Thank you very much) ! :D

defalt

Can i get some assistance with this

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Q: Ubuntu 16.10 Unable to Boot under Secureboot After OS Update

My laptop model is HP ENVY 4-1220tx Ultrabook. I installed Ubuntu 16.10 with SecureBoot enabled. Yesterday I installed an OS Update from Ubuntu Software. Today, when I tried to boot my computer into Ubuntu under SecureBoot, it fails to authenticate the EFI file and therefore cannot boot. Now I ...

grub2 grub-efi secure-boot dkms

Rinzwind

Ich bin kein Deutscher

defalt

Do you notice the last line: No DKMS packages installed: not changing Secure Boot validation state.

This error is preventing shim to get installed in the EFI partition

Rinzwind

@defalt so... install dkms? :=)

cl-netbox

@Rinzwind okay ... so I learned : when a Dutch man means thanks, he says "of course" ! :D

defalt

14:04

I actually have all the dkms packages..i checked this through dpkg-query -l

Rinzwind

@cl-netbox I am not average >:-D

@defalt well ... I have no idea :-X

cl-netbox

@Rinzwind same with me ! :)

defalt

@Rinzwind should i bump that question?

Rinzwind

@defalt does that help ->

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Q: Why disabling "Secure Boot" is enforced policy when installing 3rd party modules

When installing 16.04, I was asked to turn off "Secure Boot" if I wanted to install 3rd party modules/drivers. I did not comply. And when I installed manually the only 3rd party drivers I use (bcmwl-kernel-source), I was asked again (during the installation of the package) to turn off "Secure B...

kernel uefi 16.04 secure-boot

cl-netbox

@Rinzwind what would he need it for ? :D

defalt

14:08

@Rinzwind Already read that and it isn't related

Rinzwind

@cl-netbox well the message says ...

defalt

does shim install work for you?

Rinzwind

"No DKMS packages installed: not changing Secure Boot validation state."

I would assume someone would need to compile/install it manually :-P

cl-netbox

@Rinzwind yes, that's an information - not an error. :)

Rinzwind

@fossfreedom how are you on secure boot/dkms? >:-D

fossfreedom

14:10

how fast can a mouse run ...

cl-netbox

@fossfreedom very fast ... Hi David ! :) Nice to see you ! :)

defalt

@cl-netbox Are you sure that's not an error?

Rinzwind

@fossfreedom not fast enough to prevent a wizzard from transmuting it :=)

cl-netbox

@defalt yes I am : Installation finished. No error reported. No DKMS packages installed: not changing Secure Boot validation state.

fossfreedom

lol

Rinzwind

14:11

@defalt no that is a message. Not an error :)

cl-netbox

@Rinzwind as I already said -> chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/39444122#39444122 :D

Rinzwind

so did I 3 above yours @cl-netbox :P

defalt

Then shim is supposed to be there in EFI partition but when i mount my EFI partition sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt ..shim is not there

cl-netbox

@defalt Then reinstall GRUB ! :)

defalt

@cl-netbox let me try

Dɑvïd

14:15

@Rinzwind There's an option that never crossed my mind. I've found the source, but is there any difference between Images ##1,2,3,4?

(This is for my regular work machine, btw, but if it "works like a charm", that sounds good to me! I just use LibO, and other standard issue items.)

Rinzwind

@Dɑvïd wrong site

cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current

^

Dɑvïd

@Rinzwind Ahh! Much obliged. ;)

defalt

@cl-netbox re-installing grub only reinstalls grubx64.efi..it doesn't add shimx64.efi which i was trying to install

Rinzwind

Ok back to Neverwinter

Byte Commander

You should maybe try reinstalling shim or shim-signed. Those packages provide the shimx64.efi file.

Huh? This is weird!

defalt

14:24

@ByteCommander That's what i did and it does say 'Installing for x86_64-efi platform.Installation finished. No error reported". But it is lying..I checked it shimx64 is not present in EFI

Byte Commander

I try to click the desktop on my left monitor, but apparently the clicks are received by the Evince window on my right-monitor instead. O.o

I can even select text in Evince by dragging around the mouse on my left monitor on the desktop

cl-netbox

@defalt do it from the live media

defalt

@cl-netbox that's better..i will try and report you soon

cl-netbox

@defalt do it this way -> askubuntu.com/questions/880662/… (part 2 of the answer) ! :)

defalt

@cl-netbox You are mistaken..it will not install shim..it only installs grub..i' often use that method to reinstall grub

cl-netbox

14:30

@defalt then something else is wrong ... if you have installed ubuntu in efi mode on a GPT disk, this method installs all boot files (including shim) ! :)

defalt

i'll find out soon..thanks for sharing your time

cl-netbox

@defalt You're welcome ! :) I hope that you can get it done. :)

chaskes

16:19

Please kill this question: askubuntu.com/questions/946819/…

cl-netbox

16:43

Hi Seth ! New picture ... is it you on it ? :)

chaskes

@cl-netbox I have a friend who I'm showing how to use Ubuntu on his old Yoga 2, so you just got an UV from me. :)

cl-netbox

@chaskes Hey that's nice of you ! :) Thank you very much ! :) Just saw it ... those BCM drivers suck. :D

chaskes

Well, it's the right answer plus it shows him how to use AU (and I couldn't remember the package name of the top of my head)

They are a pain indeed. the Win 8 the yoga came with never worked right on it. With the bcm driver it saves his old computer and gets him into linux.

cl-netbox

@chaskes yes ... I have such a BCM chip in my old DELL ... and ubuntu seems to be the only distro where you can install the drivers easily. :)

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Q: How to properly install USB display driver for Fresco Logic FL2000DX on Ubuntu?

I need to connect additional monitors on my computer and I get Fresco Logic FL2000DX USB display adapters. This adapters works perfect on Windows but I need to use on my development machine based on Ubuntu 16.04. I find this on git hub: https://github.com/fresco-fl2000/fl2000 and try to install ...

ubuntu drivers display-settings proprietary-drivers

chaskes

16:55

@cl-netbox That's true. I used to have one on a now-dead lenovo S10-3 netbook. With Debian, I could install the driver from usb during install (still a pain actually) but with anything else I just used a usb dongle.

But that's also a pain for newcomers, I think.

cl-netbox

@chaskes Now I have RHEL 7.4 on this machine ... and guess what ? I dropped that (even heavier) pain and use ethernet instead ! hahaha :)

@chaskes yes indeed ... just look at this -> wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom ... pure horror ! :)

Nathan Osman

17:13

Time to give amdgpu-pro on 17.04 a shot.

If I don't return, it was nice knowing y'all.

cl-netbox

@NathanOsman use clonezilla before ! :D

Nathan Osman

I've got LVM, so I'll just create snapshots.

cl-netbox

@NathanOsman or that ... :D good luck ! :)

Nathan Osman

Alright, freezing everything in time...

cl-netbox

@NathanOsman right as expected ... :D

TheWanderer

17:23

Feh

Nathan Osman

Fanceh.

Kernel module is building - no errors so far, so that's good.

Installation was a success, time for a reboot.

Well, the reboot succeeded.

$ sudo lshw -c video
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Curacao XT / Trinidad XT [Radeon R7 370 / R9 270X/370X]
       vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=amdgpu latency=0
       resources: irq:34 memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:fea00000-fea3ffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:c0000-dffff

Seems to have worked... I think...

Hrm. Blender is freezing up.

Not a good sign.

I'll give Steam a shot.

Games work, so that's good.

The Blender issue may be related to OpenCL.

$ ./cltest
Platforms:
  0. AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
  1. Clover

Hmm... which one do you think is the GPU?

Clover is the open source ICD.

Nathan Osman

17:52

I don't think it's using the Pro driver...

Nathan Osman

18:11

vdpau support is really minimal.

It appears to be limited to MPEG-1/2 support. No h.264 or HEVC or anything.

Oh, it's using "Generic GPU-Accelerated Video Decoding"

I don't think it's using the amdgpu-pro library.

Byte Commander

Nice Wagakki Band cover:

Senbonzakura - cover by Lindsey Stirling

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Nathan Osman

18:26

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Q: How to enable amdgpu-pro's VDPAU driver on Ubuntu 17.04?

I have downloaded and installed amdgpu-pro-17.30-465504.tar.xz on Ubuntu 17.04 (64-bit). I have verified that the libvdpau-amdgpu-pro package is installed: $ dpkg -l libvdpau-amdgpu-pro:amd64 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/tri...

17.04 amdgpu vdpau

edwinksl

speaking of that, where is serg

Nathan Osman

Well, let's see if anyone else can figure this out.

Seth

@edwinksl everyone has been starting to wonder that

edwinksl

damn seth has a real display picture

just noticed

Seth

it only happened a day or two ago

Nathan Osman

18:32

Is there a way to check if you are using the amdgpu-pro driver?

Seth

@NathanOsman additional drivers? modprobe?

Nathan Osman

I'll check...

This is the only thing that shows up:

Seth

What does lsmod show?

Nathan Osman

paste.ubuntu.com/25327337

I have no idea why btrfs is loaded, BTW :P

Seth

18:49

amdgpu               2695168  100
amdttm                 98304  1 amdgpu
amdkcl                 24576  2 amdgpu,amdkfd
i2c_algo_bit           16384  1 amdgpu
drm_kms_helper        151552  1 amdgpu

my guess would be yes?

@NathanOsman I would imagine some kind of software suite would come with it. Anything like that installed?

Nathan Osman

Yes but amdgpu != amgpu-pro.

@Seth Not that I can tell. The packages from the installer are installed but I don't know if the driver itself is in use.

Seth

DuckDuckGo is inconclusive, but it seems amdgpu is what you're looking for

but don't quote me

easy way to tell would be to uninstall it and try again

James

@Seth please organize a 0ad game - this sounds awesome.

Seth

19:06

@James I'll see what I can do before school starts.

James

Sounds good!

Seth

I need to get a powerline adapter..

Wireless from my room is just bad. Especially with my laptop in a docking station.

Takkat

@Seth amazon.com/Tenda-AV1000-Powerline-Pass-through-1000Mbps/dp/… - I have some of those, they do quite well.

Seth

@Takkat Good to know. I was looking at these amazon.com/dp/B010Q29OW6/ref=psdc_1194444_t2_B00S0TGYAI since a local store I have credit with sells them

pretty close to what you got

Takkat

yeah - TP link are said to be good as well... 1000 is a myth anyway. Haven't tested them however.

Probably better support from TP-Link.

Seth

19:16

I'm hoping I won't need that xD

Takkat

Good thing is: they most likely are compatible with each other... so you can continue to use them after you upgraded to another set.

LandonZeKepitelOfGreytBritn

19:53

Hi

Seth

hey it's an @Oli

@LandonZeKepitelOfGreytBritn hey!

TheWanderer

aww

no more candid seth photos

LandonZeKepitelOfGreytBritn

@Seth did you recently change your profile pic on SE? that quote on your profile sounds very familiar.

Seth

@LandonZeKepitelOfGreytBritn yes I did.

TheWanderer

20:08

ack the new one is back

Seth

@TheWanderer gravatar is buggy

TheWanderer

veryy

LandonZeKepitelOfGreytBritn

could someone give a practical situation where you would use POSIX?

Seth

POSIX is a family of standards, not really a thing you "use".

LandonZeKepitelOfGreytBritn

I once applied for a job at a company and they litteraly asked me "Are you familiar with POSIX"?

IIRC we (the guy interviewing me and I) had a short chat and along the lines I know it uses call back functions to communicate between processes/programs.

That's all I infered from the discussion.

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20:13

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Jeremy31

How can banning spammers be any fun when you have a bot?

TheWanderer

the bot just reports things

Jeremy31

It isn't much fun on the Mint forums where users first posts are moderated

@Seth Seth are you still using the Atheros wifi

Seth

20:30

@Jeremy31 A bit, yes.

I don't use that computer as much, but after your answer to my question I never had any problems.

Jeremy31

In 16.04 they changed Network Manager to enable wifi power management by default and causes problems

Seth

@Jeremy31 I never did have any problems with that

surprisingly

Jeremy31

sudo sed -i 's/2/3/' /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/*

That will set the default to disable power management

Byte Commander

That looks quite destructive.

TheWanderer

@Seth your avatar is changing every message :D

Seth

20:34

not on my end

Byte Commander

here neither.

But I also used to have an issue with Gravatar so that especially icons of different sizes would show different images.

Jeremy31

Byte Commander, it is safe for now as that directory only has one file in it for now, the command I usually post is sudo sed -i 's/wifi.powersave = 3/wifi.powersave = 2/' /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/default-wifi-powersave-on.conf

Byte Commander

That one looks more reasonable.

You could shorten it though:

sudo sed -i 's/(wifi.powersave\s*=\s*)3/\12/' /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/default-wifi-powersave-on.conf

(Maybe you need the -r switch for extended regular expressions, not sure about that)

Jeremy31

That's what Hadaka said on ubuntuforums in a PM and actually that command I just posted is backwards as you want it to be wifi.powersave=2 to disable.

Nevermind

The command is correct, must be a sign that I need to get away from the computer for a while

TheWanderer

21:51

why are there so many LTE bands that overlap in frequency?

Byte Commander

To get many bands in a small frequency range

Android Dev

22:09

@TheWanderer So there's this one user who wants to turn Ubuntu Touch into an app... I told him I don't think that's feasible. Thoughts?

(Android app)

TheWanderer

what

Android Dev

@ByteCommander you mean it's less active than normal?

TheWanderer

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE

Android Dev

lol

Byte Commander

Well, Zanna left, Kaz left, Serg is away, jokerdino is away, and probably quite some more former regulars I forgot now or who left much earlier

TheWanderer

22:20

well OpenWeatherMap is useless

Android Dev

@ByteCommander why did kaz leave?

Byte Commander

Couldn't really get much out of him. Probably not much time and more important things to do in real life?

He also left the Ubuntu Discord.

Android Dev

hue

Byte Commander

not hue

Jeremy31

Could be that some of these people are retired and want to travel

TheWanderer

23:08

@Jeremy31 Zanna and Serg are in their 20s, and Kaz doesn't want his real age out, but I can tell you he's not nearly ready for retirement either

LandonZeKepitelOfGreytBritn

so many ppl seem to be in their mid twenties, where are all the ppl with 20+ years of experience or the real seniors?

I have the feeling many of those people left over the years.

Byte Commander

23:30

@LandonZeKepitelOfGreytBritn They simply started with Linux as toddlers...

LandonZeKepitelOfGreytBritn

@ByteCommander what are they up to now? :p

Byte Commander

who knows

LandonZeKepitelOfGreytBritn

being gods and working for nsa

or Elon Musk

how do you guys remember by heart that when doing chmod

1 refers to execute, 2 to write and 4 to read

?

I always mix them

same for the order eg, 400 != 040 != 004

Byte Commander

I always use alphabetical permissions

like o=rx

or g-w

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