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Android Dev

00:58

So

I agreed to replace someone's iPhone 5s screen

But

The replacement kit which showed up today says, "iPhone 5s screen replacement and Replar kit"

:\

Hopefully it works....

TheWanderer

01:30

vote fuzzing is so confusing

I also think it's weird that /r/Windows hides vote counts for 7 hours

Ask Ubuntu Meta

01:47

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Q: Suggestion for changing the vote/accept icons

I'm not sure that most (new) users know how to properly use the vote and accept icons that appear in answers. I know that I didn't for quite some time. I'd like to propose a minor change in the vote and accept icons... ^ vote V and checkmark icon (as it is now) Accept

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Eliah Kagan

Spam.

Kaz Wolfe

03:24

guess who's baaaaacck

edwinksl

03:44

governator

Doug Smythies

07:09

@ThomasWard : I went back over a few months of tcpdump data from my Ubuntu server (one sub-net). I don't see it using (in my case) 192.168.111.255 for dhcp lease requests. I see potential clients using 255.255.255.255. I know we configure the dhcp server as to which interfaces to listen to, however, we never tell specifically it which subnet is for which interface (at least that I could see). So my point was, I guess it figures it out somehow, which it what I thought was cool.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

09:45

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Q: Too little Edit quota

Recently I am able to start doing First Post reviews, but while I am doing so, I had to edit a lot of posts that are of low quality. However, when I started my 6th edit, I repeatedly click on the "Edit" button and nothing happens and nothing pop up. Only going back to the question and clicking t...

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Cynplytholowazy

10:40

I just found out that all my flags are not being reviewed. What to do?

Byte Commander

wait

what type of flag was it and how long ago did you raise it?

Cynplytholowazy

1 is "not an answer" and it is 53 mins ago

and some "off-topic" , "not an answer" and "rude and abusive" at arround 15 mins ago

Now that I mentioned that, one of the flag is primarily opinion-based and I raised it at Sep 10 at 6:15 and it is STILL pending....

Byte Commander

11:03

Close votes/flags can take while, the review queues for those are quite long.

~200 items normally

Cynplytholowazy

Oh

Byte Commander

Also to close a question, 5 positive reviews are needed.

NAA should be quicker, but it can also take several hours until it's through.

Cynplytholowazy

I know, but even though there is 1 vote, in the "flagged post" page I will see "helpful" already.

Now most of them are still pending.

Byte Commander

Red flags (spam/rude) should be fairly quick, but I am not sure if they also get into the normal low-quality queue or only into the moderator queue.

Could you link the post(s) you red-flagged?

Cynplytholowazy

ok

This one to me is the most concerned.

Byte Commander

11:08

Ok, the comment is gone and the answer should follow soon.

Cynplytholowazy

BTW that one also contains a flag "Not an answer", can you help?

Byte Commander

which?

Cynplytholowazy

The same one.

Byte Commander

As I said, the answer will be deleted soon too.

I just can't do this alone.

Cynplytholowazy

How about you flagging that post as well?

Byte Commander

11:12

I did.

And I casted a delete vote. Still one more needed though.

Cynplytholowazy

OK, thank you very much.

Byte Commander

np

Just also keep in mind that it's the weekend and that the site is a bit more quiet then than on labour days.

Cynplytholowazy

Oh, I didn't realize that...

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Q: Receiving "suggested edits" on yr(s) old posted answers

Receiving "suggested edits" on yr(s) old posted answers. Is there a new effort or policy to clean up posts? Or Is Askubuntu being infiltrated by bots or spam hackers in recent weeks? My concern is twofold: Am I being randomly or intentionally targeted? I ask that because these suggested edi...

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sempaiscuba

11:48

On 17 September 1991, the first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) was released. So raise your cups of coffee in memory of the first step on the road that would lead to where we are today. :)

Cynplytholowazy

xd

Rinzwind

12:03

askubuntu.com/posts/956687/revisions

mess ^ ^^

Cynplytholowazy

eh...

He just made the question much worse...

?? Is no one onto the suggested edit queue?

Byte Commander

Patience you must have, my young padawan.

Cynplytholowazy

Sorry for having no patience.

LOL

BTW this is the fifth time the same edit suggest @ByteCommander

Possible to disable anonymous edit on that post?

Byte Commander

12:21

I can't do anything but repeatedly rejecting the suggestions.

Cynplytholowazy

I mean, it actually comes from 3 different users,....

Byte Commander

Maybe some secret mod powers might be able to do something, idk.

Cynplytholowazy

If possible.

because this community is actually getting lots of spams and destructive things recently...

Byte Commander

It gets dealt with accordingly.

Spam normally doesn't last a minute.

Cynplytholowazy

I know.

What I can do is just flag them.

And let the spam removal take place automatically

Byte Commander

12:23

yep

Ask Ubuntu Meta

12:44

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Q: Should Old Questions be answered or commented?

I've seen old questions pop up (like 3 years old) because some newbies/users answer or comment. What should I do when I see these old questions? Ignore them? Is there any rule saying "Do not comment on old questions"? Should I answer/comment on old questions if they pop up or not?

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user136984

14:07

Good morning!

user136984

I mean, afternoon!

user136984

:D

Benny

14:31

Hello Panda :D

user136984

Hello

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How to disable password expiry without chage?

I have an ubuntu linux image, which I use for my single board computer. When I write it the media (it's an sdcard), then boot and log in, it asks me to change the password. Since I can mount and modify the sdcard content with another computer before actually performing the boot, I'd like to di...

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user136984

15:35

@Nathan: What happened to the idea of having another 0AD event here on AU?

user136984

Did you have that without me or has it just been forgotten about and not gone ahead?

David Foerster

16:33

@Cynplytholowazy Here's another one.

Vlad

18:11

hello

Sombody using ubuntu 16.04 and crosswalk?

I am having trouble to tell crosswalk where is android, but it keeps telling me, ANDROID_HOME is empty

but when I type echo $ANDROID_HOME i see the path i set and also when I type "android" in console i get a list of commands

Santhosh Pogaku

any answers on expdp concept

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

System.out.printf("Hello World !")

Byte Commander

o/

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

18:29

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Q: Huawei 4G Mobile WIfi not working on Ubuntu

I am having hard time connecting to the internet using my 4G modem Huawei E5372. on my windows PC, i have no problem but connecting this to my Desktop PC on Ubuntu via USB, I have the following error Error mounting /dev/sr1 at /media/userpc/MobileWiFi: Command-line `mount -t "iso9660" -o...

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Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Ohai, Rinzy !

Where's Zanna by the way ?

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

18:44

@Seth Think we could merge this question that has nothing accepted with this where there's accepted answer from Zanzan ?

or maybe I should just dupe-nukem with my gold-badge powers

Eliah Kagan

Unless I'm missing something, those questions are not the same at all.

Byte Commander

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy exiled

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@EliahKagan Search for files, grep them, print filename if match exists - seems same ?

Byte Commander

She decided to mainly stay in the Downboat room only.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Heh. Well I should pay a visit there some time. Seems like more and more people are going into "exiles"

Eliah Kagan

18:51

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy One of them is recursive and the other is not. Also, in one of them the filename is always the same but may be anywhere in the directory hierarchy and traditional (non-extended) globbing can't be used to list all the files, while in the other the filenames are different and traditional globbing can be trivially used to list all the files.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Eh . . . yeah, that's slightly different

I'll reopen

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Extended partition problem

I made a mistake introducing a tar command over the /home that made all Ubuntu logical partitions to be out of the extended partition. I had an NTFS partition for Windows 10, and then an Ubuntu one separated in 3 partitions: /, /boot & /home. Here's the fdisk output Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500...

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Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Backtick not typing on ubuntu 17.04 macbook pro

I've installed Ubuntu 17.04 (64-bit) on my macbook pro alongside both OSX and Windows ten (via bootcamp). The whole setup works surprisingly well with just two small, but irritating, keyboard issues. I'll stick to the more important one here. The backtick key located just left of the #1 key does...

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Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@TheWanderer Here's a random ping for no reason whatsoever

Hmmm . . . I guess he's AFK

j0h

21:30

I want to ask a question but cannot. see [photo]
dang, i cant upload what is this nonsense?
um... ok, photo of me not being able to submit my question:
http://nanocluster.umeche.maine.edu/wtf.png

The question goes like this:
"
I have 2 lenovo thinkpads, both running Ubuntu mate 17.10 zesty.
At some point, the T430, stopped connecting to the internet. I was able to see other networks, but not able to connect to my home network.
I swapped the hard drives, and am now able to connect with both laptops.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@j0h Try clearing your cache and logging in again, see if that helps in any way

j0h

oh, browser cache? ok

TheWanderer

22:37

iz sergo

ugh

why is Realtek's site so terrible?

TheXed

@TheWanderer because they answer to no one.

TheWanderer

k

edwinksl

sergo was here?

j0h

22:56

wow, the real tek site is trash. hey what does the RMC on the realtek logo stand for?

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