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chaskes

00:27

@ParanoidPanda haven't talked in a while. how's the japanese? I need to get back to that.

Seth

00:46

@chaskes ooh they have a nice bite sized bugs section. Might use that for hacktoberfest

Nathan Osman

NitroShare just switched to RecyclerViews.

Wow, so much nicer.

Seth

@NathanOsman have you tried the qt bindings for go yet?

chaskes

@Seth Yeah, I like the approach they're taking. They've already contributed changes upstream, too. One I noticed (haven't checked to see if it's reported yet or looked for a fix) is with app folders. If you modify the pre-defined app folders, they get reset on the next session.

Seth

@chaskes I'll have to get an install to play with it more.

I have no idea what "app folders" means without context xD

Nathan Osman

@Seth No, I'm not quite sure I see the point TBH.

You still need the Qt libraries at runtime.

And for that, you might as well write C++.

Seth

00:51

@NathanOsman Probably isn't one. Tho not everyone is a C++ wizard like yourself ;)

chaskes

@Seth Oops, I forgot you don't normally use gnome. app folders are the groupings of the desktop launchers in the activities overview.

Nathan Osman

@Seth Using Go with a C++ library isn't going to be all that much easier.

danidee

Hello guys

So i'm in a tricky situation

Seth

@NathanOsman I don't understand. The python bindings aren't officially supported either, but I never needed to touch C++ to use them.

danidee

A co-worker was playing with symlinks and long story short

Seth

00:54

uh oh

danidee

Lol

He has replaced pg_dump and pg_dumpall with versions that don't match that of the database

so we can't backup now

Seth

What's pg_dump?

ohh, postgres dump

danidee

@Seth Oh...It's a utility for taking postgres database dumps like mysqldump

Seth

so he overwrote the original files with symlinks of the same name?

danidee

@Seth Yeah....we still had binaries for an older version of postgres sitting on the server

He was trying to make pg_dump point to the new Postgres's pg_dump not the old one

Seth

00:57

@danidee so just replace the binaries with new copies? It's not like he caused the system to be inoperable.

danidee

New copies from where?...It's a binary file

Seth

I'm not familiar with postgres, but where'd you get the first binary?

danidee

I thought about reinstalling postgres....but i'm scared that i might lose data

and there's no way to backup

@Seth while installing postgres...The only way to get one back (that i can think of) is to reinstall but i'm scared to do that blindly cuz we don't have backups and there's no way to backup now

I'm tried backing up remotely from my machine...but for some strange reason the terminal prompt is just blank...No output (Still trying to find out why)

is

So i guess my main question for now

Can i safely reinstall postgresql without losing data?

I'm sure reinstallation would bring back the pg_dump binary

Seth

@danidee dunno. Like I said, I'm not familiar with it.

hang on.

@danidee I downloaded the source package for postgresql

they don't ship a binary for pg_dump. Looking to see how hard it is to build one.

danidee

01:12

Yeah it's compiled during installation and linked to the current version you have installed

So you can't use a pg_dump for 9.1 on 9.2

I just got an idea

Seth

well on my ivy bridge i5 this might take a while xD

danidee

What about spinning up a new docker container and installing postgres there...Just to get the pg_dump

Seth

yeah that should work

@danidee well I built a binary for 9.6.

danidee

Okay i'll try that

@Seth Well that was quite fast :-D

Seth

If you trust me I can upload to somewhere for you. But that's probably not kosher if you're using this in a business environement.

@danidee Yeah it was faster than I expected

danidee

01:15

@Seth Yeeeahhh though we're not 9.6 we're on 9.4

but thanks for all the help

This docker idea wouldn't have come to my head if i didn't talk to someone about my problem

Nathan Osman

@Seth Yes, but Python has the GIL (global interpreter lock). Go has goroutines, which are a completely different story.

danidee

and if that doesn't work for some weird reason...I'll just go ahead and build for 9.4

Seth

@danidee np. Just spin up a docker instance (or lxd, might be faster) and apt-get build-dep postgresql; apt-get source postgresql. Untar it and ./configure && make and you're good to go.

Nathan Osman

Python is also a dynamically typed language.

Seth

Binary is in /src/bin/pg_dump

Nathan Osman

01:17

Go is statically typed, requiring a lot of boilerplate code to marshal types.

danidee

@NathanOsman "Cpython" not Python xD

Seth

Fair enough Nathan. You know more about it than I do.

Nathan Osman

@danidee Fair point.

Seth

@danidee Oh that's a good point.

danidee

@Seth Thanks

Would do that in the morning....I'm tired already

I have to make sure i'm in my right senses

Seth

01:20

Always a good idea!

Nathan Osman

What the heck Twitter...

I am creating an account and the green checkbox appears next to the username in the form.

But when I submit the form "sorry, but this username has been taken".

Like. Wat.

TheWanderer

do you have uBlock or something active?

Nathan Osman

Incognito window.

Nothing is active.

TheWanderer

hmm

Nathan Osman

{"valid":true,"reason":"available","msg":"Available!","desc":"Available!",...}

TheWanderer

01:23

shrug

report it

Nathan Osman

JSON response to

https://twitter.com/users/username_available?context=signup&custom=true&email=[‌...]&full_name=[...]&suggest=1&suggest_on_username=true&username=[...]

I want the username! :P

TheWanderer

no

Nathan Osman

LOL

TheWanderer

username=[...]?

Nathan Osman

It's already given me the username.

TheWanderer

01:24

wat

Nathan Osman

I redacted that.

TheWanderer

wai

i want to steal

Nathan Osman

No can do.

TheWanderer

oh

ok

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Netcat Bad Request

I'm using Ubuntu and I switched to netcat-traditional version but when I try to make simple HTTP requests it always failing, any cases, any servers giving 400 Bad request: (Apache Ubuntu is running on port 80) nc localhost 80 I sent plain: GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost Simple or complex r...

TheWanderer

01:27

I still love this comment reddit.com/r/Android/comments/6nrv88/…

jrg

02:12

Today I learned that you can check on archive update status by going to the root directory of the mirror.

gosh, hanger and wahoo keep disappearing and then reappearing.

Nathan Osman

04:11

My WD Green drive only gets 100 MiB/s write :(

Nathan Osman

04:30

Installing Windows updates on a VM is reaaaaaally slow.

Nathan Osman

05:08

I dunno who to yell at but Chrome on Win7 is truncating downloads.

And it's driving me crazy.

Completely unrelated accidental discovery: /facepalm in Hangouts converts the message to (－‸ლ)

I did not know this.

Nathan Osman

07:57

Anyone have thoughts on this design?

Byte Commander

clean material design... just a bit generic and boring IMHO

I'm not a huge fan of MD myself anyway though

Stefano Palazzo

08:24

@NathanOsman looks great!

What's the difference between the upload button next to the device name and the fab?

Nathan Osman

09:19

The upload button is actually an icon.

It indicates the direction of the transfer.

The arrow points the other way when receiving a transfer.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

11:09

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Q: What to do when someone's posting answers which suggest upgrading to an EoL release

A new user just posted the (almost) same answer, viz. Update to Ubuntu 16.10 That should solve this (issue). to the following two different questions where OP is/was using 16.04 I am not able to find other people on my local network when playing Counter Strike 1.6 My Ubuntu 16.04 does not...

discussion

TheWanderer

a mod might want to look into that question

@NathanOsman the progress bar is a little funky

TheWanderer

12:22

jrg

14:11

My skills of running Ubuntu+1 have atrophied over the years.

@StefanoPalazzo how's it going?

dessert

14:51

Hooray, there's a userscript to change the top bar!

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Stack Exchange Top Nav Choices ( install ) ( GitHub ) Top Nav Choices changes the new Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow top navigation based on the preferences you set. The preferences are accessed on your normal Stack Exchange preferences page1. Default changed top navigation on Stack Overflo...

script tampermonkey topbar navigation theme

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Ask Ubuntu Meta

15:45

0

Q: New navbar bug review queues not operating as expected

This is different from Review queue false negatives on the new top bar which has been dismissed as status-by-design. When I first logged on this morning the review queue indicator was not lit. After donating my time here for almost 4 years, I was certain that that was false. So I clicked on it to...

bug

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

16:54

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Q: Is $argv in fish shell different from $@ in bash?

I was trying to learn and write some fish scripts, but I encountered a strange issue. # a.fish # this is a fish script set temp (getopt -o abc -l ace,bad,correct -- $argv) echo $temp When I ran fish ./a.fish -a -b --correct it worked fine and output -a -b --correct -- However, when I chan...

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Ask Ubuntu Meta

17:08

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Q: Why are the top voted answers on top of the accepted answer when it was answered by the asker?

Why is it that the top voted answer always appears on top if the accepted answer is created by the asker himself? Usually if the answer is accepted by the asker, it worked for him, so why wouldn't that be on top in this situation?

discussion accepted-answer self-answer

Kaz Wolfe

17:38

4

Q: Screen (slowly) goes black after full-screening apps

Whenever I full-screen certain applications, my entire screen will slowly begin to get covered by a black filter from the top down (see this YouTube video). Upon any attempt at a screen refresh (for example, moving a mouse cursor or a game drawing a new frame) will cause the black bar to start f...

nvidia graphics

if anyone wants to try for +125

Is there a reason this question has a close vote?

terdon

17:58

@KazWolfe Wow. That's really weird.

@KazWolfe I think because the OP realized that they need screen because, sadly, someone posted a comment instead of an answer.

Kaz Wolfe

18:13

@terdon that's why I have +100 on it :P

@terdon still, that's not really a valid reason for a CV. OP can write an answer or someone else can.

Thomas Ward

yells "AAAAAAAAAAAAA"

Nathan Osman

18:45

I added some more content.

terdon

@ThomasWard Like this?

Nathan Osman

Uh...

That's a step backwards.

Fabby

19:50

@NathanOsman Starred and going to the google store...

Mmh I can't give any stars...

Only leave a comment...

Mmh. back goes back to the menu and comes back to the root directory when sending files...

Ah! Found it!

dessert

20:48

Does somebody know anything about aptitude's strange -q option?

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Q: What are the different values available for the Aptitude CLI “-q” option?

So I am creating some Vagrant provisioning scripts for some Ubuntu (14.04) boxes. I am using commands like this to install Ubuntu packages via Aptitude: sudo aptitude install -y -q=2 Okay, I understand that -q and -q=1 are functionally the same and that -q=2 suppresses even more output. But a...

debian aptitude

I just tested with aptitude update: Normal run 766 bytes of output, with -q also 766 bytes, with -q2 or more suddenly 0 bytes – wtf?

Byte Commander

@dessert -q suppresses the progress output in the last line, which doesn't stay in the console but gets dynamically changed.

Also note you won't see this when piping to e.g. wc because aptitude detects it's connected to a pipe and not to a terminal and always suppresses progress output automatically in that case.

dessert

@ByteCommander OK, but if -q2 suppresses the whole output, what's -q3 and so on for? Why would one construct it as an open scale, it even accepts -q10000!

Byte Commander

shrug

Just accept that the highest useful value is 2...

dessert

21:03

I would, but then again not even this is mentioned in the manpage:
-q[=<n>], --quiet[=<n>]
Suppress all incremental progress indicators, thus making the output loggable. This may be supplied multiple times to make the program quieter, but
unlike apt-get, aptitude does not enable -y when -q is supplied more than once.
The optional =<n> may be used to directly set the amount of quietness (for instance, to override a setting in /etc/apt/apt.conf); it causes the program
to behave as if -q had been passed exactly <n> times.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: update-grub/os-loader doesn't see multiple Ubuntu installations on software Raid

I have two disks containing multiple software RAID1 (mdadm) partitions . I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on /dev/md0 and /dev/md2 (corresponding to /boot and /, respectively) and Ubuntu 16.04 on /dev/md1 and /dev/md3. When I ran update-grub on either of the two, the other installation could not be detec...

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TheWanderer

lol

Nathan Osman

lol

Booting Ubuntu daily VM...

Nathan Osman

21:57

Preparing to release NitroShare 0.3.4.

This is a long and tedious process. Lots of packages to prepare.

Like. A lot.

TheWanderer

kek

Nathan Osman

I have to prepare them on my "clean" machine.

Then I test them in clean VMs...

Then I sign them, etc...

TheWanderer

are there IAPs or anything with NS?

Nathan Osman

Nope.

Not yet.

Kaz Wolfe

22:46

"not yet"

inb4 nathan requires a $2.99 monthly subscription to transmit files over 1mb

TheWanderer

lol

He'll be the next Cheetah Mobile

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