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I'm having a problem where Cinnamon 18.2 freezes randomly. It didn't always do this, it just started last night. No idea why. It's a similar issue to the one posted here: viewtopic.php?f=208&t=253589. No mouse movement, no keyboard, sounds breaks, etc. One thing I noticed that this started happe...

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

06:45

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Q: how to migrate to docker architecture?

I am totally new to Docker and I like the concept of isolation of the different processes in different environment, mostly too the fact that you can test something in a container without polluting your base system. I am now planning to undergo the big project to move my home server towards a Dock...

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Byte Commander

07:03

Attention guys, SmokeDetector is having issues currently and can't cast any auto-flags as MetaSmoke is down at the moment. Please be on alert for a higher amount of spam which will last longer on the site.

Byte Commander

07:18

in Charcoal HQ, 8 mins ago, by tripleee

Metasmoke instability continues, harming Smoke Detector (incl autoflagging), userscripts, and etc. We are unable to take any quick action, but are considering our options. If you have clever ideas, please add them as a comment on issue #257

Rinzwind

08:36

There flagged @ByteCommander

LandonZeKepitelOfGreytBritn

Hi
I am running out of space on my device. Do you think it is safe to just delete .tbz files? I found a .tbz file from Chromium, which is already installed, which takes 4.2Gb

I think it is OK, but just asking to be sure and not run in dependency issues or smth like that later...

Byte Commander

.tbz is a bz-compressed tar archive

it could contain anything

Better open and inspect it first.

LandonZeKepitelOfGreytBritn

shit...

@ByteCommander too late

Byte Commander

09:02

:(

LandonZeKepitelOfGreytBritn

28Gb gets filled pretty quickly

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

09:35

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Q: SCP permission denied

I have created two LXC containers on my host Ubuntu 16.0.4 one is Ubuntu and the other is Centos7 .I am trying to copy file from Centos7 using scp command to Ubuntu as root user it is asking for root password while I entered correct password it’s showing permission denied.May I know the possible...

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Ubuntu Questions on U&L

09:54

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Q: How to check the logs to see what process created a file?

The file dead.letter keeps appearing in my home folder. I want to know what process is responsible for this, but there is no information on the creator of a file in the file itself. However, I believe it should be possible for it's creation to recored in the log somewhere on the system. Cheerio,...

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10:39

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Q: What command is run when the dpgk option is selected in recovery mode?

I recently ran into the following situation: I could not boot my computer normally. (I was shown a blinking cursor after the boot-loader and Ubunutu load screen but before the login page while never reaching the login page.) I was able to enter recovery mode. If I fully continued the boot, I ...

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TheWanderer

11:57

never fear I am here

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

12:23

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Q: Zesty fails to obtain IP when logged to Router via WIFI

WIFI IP Loss - Zesty fails to obtain IP when logged to Router via WIFI When I plug Ethernet cable off computer, it remains on WIFI thus losing outer IP, that is goes offline for the world (retains 192.168.0.x IP). Therefore problem with router config is not possible - unlikely - since ALL OTHER...

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14:56

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Q: How would Steamcache work in a working environment?

I’m setting up a Steamcache on a VM Ubuntu server at work. I would like to know how Steamcache would work in a working environment? How do we get the games onto the Steamcache server in the first place for our users to download from? It’s an Ubuntu server, not GUI. If one of the games is not on t...

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Nathan Osman

Google will announce a new device in an hour, apparently.

Dang, I'll be at work. Won't find out about it until lunch time.

Stefano Palazzo

15:18

they had to do it at the beginning of the month

when I still have a few euros left

Oh well what can you do.

Seth

15:34

@NathanOsman you mean like the pixel 2 or new new?

@StefanoPalazzo Give them to me :P

Stefano Palazzo

:D

I have a nexus 6p at the moment, and the battery lasts about half a day

it's driving me mad. I really really hope they don't make the new one ridiculously expensive

Thomas Ward

points at his new Galaxy S8, and that it has about a day of power with his general usage of it, whereas his iPhone lasts half that time

Seth

@StefanoPalazzo oh they will. Whatever happened to the budget powerphone? Like the Nexus line or the early OnePlus phones... :(

Stefano Palazzo

the s8 has 3000 mAh, the nexus 6P has 3450 mAh :(

Thomas Ward

@StefanoPalazzo well considering my S8 is not used as heavily as my iPhone... :P

Stefano Palazzo

15:50

I use my phone quite heavily

Thomas Ward

well there's your problem :P

Stefano Palazzo

:)

cl-netbox

16:44

Hello :)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How to install Postman in ubuntu. I am a beginner in ubuntu

I have tried executing the following commands: wget https://dl.pstmn.io/download/latest/linux64 -O postman.tar.gz sudo tar -xzf postman.tar.gz -C /opt rm postman.tar.gz sudo ln -s /opt/Postman/Postman /usr/bin/postman but the last command doesn't work. It says File exists. Now i have downlo...

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Seth

18:20

man, the pixel 2 looks sliiiiick. But $649? That's more than I've spent on a computer!

Not that my computers are all that great mind you.. but still.

oooh, new optics.

no headphone jack though..

psimeson

18:35

Hi , I have Dell Precision 5520 with touch screen and nvidia quadro m1200. I installed ubuntu 16.0.4 LTS on it. Whenever I try to write the cursor jumps randomly to different section of the text and selects and deletes text. I do not why it's doing so. It might be something to do with touchpad or Fn key. I tried to disable Fn key by pressing Fn+Esc

but it didn't help

I had manjaro xfce for a day and the cursor worked fine. However after installing nvidia driver the system crashed so I switched to ubuntu, since it support Dell precision 5520

Nathan Osman

19:01

Hi.

PixelBook, eh?

TheWanderer

@Seth OK, I'm not really one for aesthetics, but this looks good to you?

Seth

@NathanOsman starting price of $1119 lol

@TheWanderer That's not a pixel 2

TheWanderer

it's literally the image from Google's store

you're probably thinking of the Pixel 2 XL

Seth

either way, I don't think that looks bad, no

TheWanderer

Seth

19:04

although I do think it's stupid the only apparent difference between the two is that one has more bezel where the other has screen

TheWanderer

that's the Pixel 2 XL

Seth

@TheWanderer ah, yeah. They should make that more clear on the page lol

TheWanderer

@Seth exactly. They're basically the same size, but they just put those gigantic chins on it

Seth

hm, that's not what the image at the store shows though. Weird.

TheWanderer

actually click "buy"

they're just showing you the XL on the landing page

even Google thinks the normal one if ugly lol

Seth

19:06

I did. Look through the "buy" gallery, there's a side by side and the XL is larger

TheWanderer

oh that's what you meant

Seth

They definitely like the XL more, which I find even more stupid.

TheWanderer

yeah it's bigger, but not by much

Seth

eh, I'd say that's a large difference

TheWanderer

eh

you think 0.1" is large though

Seth

19:08

That's obviously more than 0.1"

and the kinda blue is a Verizon exclusive.

I really hate the phone market right now.

Nathan Osman

19:19

If it doesn't have a headphone jack, I ain't buying one.

4

The end.

Seth

I'd tend to agree.

Nathan Osman

Why does my lunch break always seem so short?

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: What are the consequences of being a (wrongly detected) beneficiary of sockpuppeting?

How do the beneficiaries of sockpuppeting get punished? It seems to me that whereas it's relatively easy and uncontroversial to penalise the sockpuppets (temporary banning/deletion of account etc.) it may be very tricky to detect (possibility of false-positives) and punish the sockpuppeteers....

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Byte Commander

19:37

@NathanOsman you eat too much.

TheWanderer

whoaaaa

adapters are super expensive right now, but I could get Thunderbolt 3 to dual HDMI/DP

Byte Commander

20:06

MASTER BOOT RECORD - Street Fighter II

►

:metal:

TheWanderer

wat

Byte Commander

Master Boot Record

> I am a 486DX-33MHz-64MB processing avant-garde chiptune, synthesized heavy metal & classical symphonic music. 100% Synthesized, 100% Dehumanized.

Cool stuff.

They have albums like C:\>COPY *.* A: /V

TheWanderer

21:09

0.50
Mbps download
0.46
Mbps upload

That is not 3G speed TMO

it's not even CDMA 3G

Seth

3G is a network technology, not a speed.

TheWanderer

but it is capable of a certain speed

and that certain speed is at least 4Mb/s

Seth

capable of, yes.

Nathan Osman

21:32

So yeah, the new Pixel is just... not compelling to me.

I'm not really in a position to replace my phone anyway.

I'll stick with what I have for now and wait until something better comes along.

TheWanderer

21:44

@Seth this is tethering, so there's no interference or bandwidth saturation

Seth

you're still using the same network everyone else is using mate

TheWanderer

@NathanOsman it truly is competing with iPhone in every way: same IP rating, no headphone jack, high price

@Seth no I'm not. I have LTE on my phone, which is currently at 35Mb/s. Tethering is limited to what TMO claims is 3G, but it's more like 2G

Seth

ah

TheWanderer

ugh automated phone system

christ

oy, rep, 3G is not 512Kbit/s

it's 384Kbit/s at the lowest, and around 1 normally

but this is a hard limit at 512K

support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-31900

literally one mention of the limit there and it's under the no credit check plan

Nathan Osman

22:10

So I'm learning how to make custom Android notifications.

TheWanderer

ruh roh

supposedly that tower near my house was upgraded to LTE on the 29th

but it's still 2G

Kaz Wolfe

well.... this is gonna be fun

about to do manual FDE/LVM setup

TheWanderer

22:25

I thought LVM was supposed to be for automation

Kaz Wolfe

it is

but it also is good for raid0

(which is, regrettably, what i'm using it for)

TheWanderer

22:43

why are you using RAID 0?

don't be a scrub, use 4 or 5

>_>

Kaz Wolfe

dont have a choice here

i only have 2x 512gb ssds

id rather use raid1, but i burn through disk space alarmingly fast

Kaz Wolfe

23:10

when i can buy new (bigger) SSDs, i'll go to raid1

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

23:36

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Q: Tool to get tree diagram for pointer structures from one to other function/file

I have multiple .c files in one folder. Is there any tool to get tree diagram from root to leaf (particularly all pointer and array structures/functions) from all c programs. Can we use a visual studio code (VS code) tool? If yes, how can we use it?

ubuntu c directory-structure tree graph

Nathan Osman

I need an SSD for my Windows partition.

It's stuck on a mechanical drive since I need the SSD for Linux.

TheWanderer

filed a complaint with the BBB

Kaz Wolfe

this is the most complicated ubuntu install i've ever seen

it feels like i'm installing arch

TheWanderer

apparently, Sprint's terrified of complaints, so maybe TMO will be too

@KazWolfe #roast

WazKolfe

don't let @Avery hear you

Kaz Wolfe

23:51

ok

i have LVM spanning two drives. LUKS is done on root inside LVM, and I will be doing cryptswap once everything else works

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