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@jrg one for your collection :)
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@Seth I feel like it could be better as a mailing list or weekly twitter chat
@jrg weekly twitter chat doesn't sound bad, for sures.
@Videonauth I should recreate that better
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@Seth i know that those are kinda old school
I didn't get the timing right
@jrg moreso than mailing lists? :P
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@Seth you kidding me?
the startup mailing lists i'm on are SUPER active
00:13
oldschool doesn't mean they're not active.
@Seth oh thats from you? giggles
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like i shunt them to their own folder unless it mentions "Cleveland", "Ohio", "Ruby" or "RV"
@Videonauth yep :P
god i have to many memes and webcomics, just searched about 30 minutes for one i wanted to put into a comment on a question
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Q: dbus not starting when using sudo

TylerI am trying to run the command "sudo -u user nautilus" when I do it returns the error: (nautilus:22255): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_proxy_new_sync: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_CONNECTON (connection)' failed (nautilus:22255): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_proxy_get_name_owner: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_COP...

 
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04:05
I just ran a system diagnostics on my brand new box and all tests passed. but two hours ago i noticed my firefox on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS was flickering
any suggestions ?
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Q: bcache backing drive on LVM without data loss

김승재I have an 128G SSD for OS. But I want to use leftover space for caching. My current drive setup is : 2TBx2, 3TBx2, 500Gx1 -> all into one LVM volume group The LVM vg is (again) divided into four logical volumes. I'm thinking that it would be nice if I could cache the entire vg into SSD, Withou...

 
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06:32
So I just saw a YouTube ad that looked like someone pointed their cellphone camera at a TV commercial.
06:53
could actually be
07:20
@gansub sudo apt purge firefox – you won't see a flickering firefox again, I promise.
@dessert tz tz tz
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@Videonauth I have to admit, I don't think much of firefox.
well for me it works since almost 2002 :) at leats i not have had to use IE (also known as Internet Exploder) :P
 
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08:38
How exactly is text-processing with python off-topic?
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Q: Searching for data from file1 in file2

OleksiiI have two csv files with the same structure. file1.csv: 352075|6505286781|6505286781|165|A|2.6.37-3.2|25353gb1FAa8 172238|8136090512|8136090512|1|A|2.6.37-3.2|255411429E02 105767|1783707658|1783707658|82|A|2.6.37-3.2|375g1043DC92 352092|2214612065|2214612065|22|A|2.6.37-3.2|07k9975cad1e file...

08:51
@dessert It's a numbers game. Ask Ubuntu has 278,389 questions. Stack Overflow has 14,997,084 questions. If all the reputation is awarded to answerers of programming questions, AU will be reviewed and dominated by users who have never installed or used Ubuntu before. It's better to let Stack Overflow handle it.
@karel Well that's not a reason to close a question, or is it?
I remember the mantra
> If you can do it using Ubuntu, it's on-topic.
Why do you think there's the word "Overflow" in Stack Overflow. iinm it's exactly to prevent this scenario from being forced into existence by elaborate consensus discussions. mantras are fine by me if they're any good. It's another way of freeing short term memory by pushing things onto the stack.
@dessert Of course it is on topic.
09:10
Am I interpreting packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/eclipse right that the repos ship only Eclipse v3.8 from Trusty to Bionic? v4.7 is the current one…
Do we really have a tag ? :D
How about ?
09:31
pls no
I can already see everyone getting gold badges for that one
09:46
@dessert then you need to make a tag as well to go along with it ;)
and should be a synonym for
@Videonauth And we miss ! Oh noes!
No, seriously: isn't any piece of software I'm not aware of, is it?
Then who created a tag like this? oO
we also desperately need
I want a too
10:22
mhmm 305 reputation from one answer in under 24 hours
if this goes on in that pace this answer will make me another day with reaching the cap
10:39
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Q: This forum needs improvement. I don't have many questions, but they are definitely not spam

JoachimThere is a lot on this forum about having enough reputation to post to old posts, use certain tags etc. Even though I don't post very often, my posts are definitely not spam. It is quite frustrating (and unnecessary) having to create new posts that totally relates to something that already exists...

10:57
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Q: Why are the old questions about how to logout of askubuntu not yet removed?

aranWhy are the irrelevant, confusing questions below that have outdated accepted answers not removed? question 1 question 2 question 3 All of the above questions should be deleted or at least be marked as duplicates of this newer question.

 
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@dessert askubuntu.com/questions/981799/… -- Pray baby.
@karel Sorry, didn't see it in review. Take an upvote. ;)
 
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14:19
Not an answer. Layer 8 Problem. Mint != Ubuntu. — Videonauth 4 mins ago
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Q: How can I open a port on my VPS which will route to my local development machine?

YasonTRI am integrating an API from a web provider. For this provider, I have to provide a personal webhook URL, such as http://my-server/my-webhook. I am currently in development phase, so I am doing everything on my personal laptop. I don't want to upload my webhook service to a public server after ev...

14:58
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Q: Why journalctl outputs in ASCII?

RogachI have a regular Ubuntu 16.04 server VM. My locale is set up to utf-8 everywhere: $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME=...

oh pls
think of the children
15:14
grrr
every time I think I've fixed sleep or reboot, it breaks again
Hello :)
 
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Q: High memory usage from "git status -z -u"?

Qin HeyangI am running Ubuntu 16.04. Recently I often find one or two "git status -z -u" process that each takes more than 5GB of memory. So I try to figure out what's going wrong. pstree gives me some output like this: systemd──lightdm──lightdm──upstart──2*[git] Apparently upstart started these git pro...

 
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Q: Set a Watch for an interesting question

mucluxSometimes I see an interesting question which has no answer yet. Later on it disappears in the timeline and I have to search for it to see if someone wrote a comment or an answer to it. Is there a possibility to set a 'watch' on a question (sort of bookmark) to be reminded to come back later or...

18:04
@Videonauth you mention this in your answer: " and it even messages you if there has been activity on that question."
I don't think that's true.
I meant that there will be a big blue number on the favorites tab in the profile
but i have no screenshot for that right now, just dismissed that earlier in my frofile
@Videonauth Oh! Is that what that means? I always thought it just meant I had added a new favorite since I last clicked on the tab. Are you sure the blue thing appears when there's been activity on the post?
any post in your favorites
yes
Really? Wow. I can't believe I'd never realized that. Thanks!
as soon there is activity going on
and as well the question will be higlighted in yellow when you click on the favorites tab too
btw terdon can you remove that star on the facebook message in /dev/chat
18:14
Why?
i find it highly offending tbh, i loke my little linux corner here on Ask Ubuntu
Dunno. I don't see it as offensive really and someone did star it so. . . But OK, whatever, I'll remove it.
thank you yes i know it was meant funny, but i didn'f happen to find the situation this has happened in very funny, as you could read from my replys :)
means i have got an upvote sinde i last checked that tab and 1 response, same applies for the favorites
@Videonauth Well, what they say is true. AU has a huge amount of crap. I don't really see why you would take it personally though. It's a simple fact. It's because i) Ubuntu attracts newbie users who (naturally) ask clueless questions (this is a good thing); ii) AU is huge so a lot more crap is missed than on smaller sites like U&L and iii) the AU audience is mostly non-experts who just want to use their machines while the U&L audience is more skewed towards knowledgeable users.
If anything, what is impressive about AU is that it doesn't have more crap and that's down to the efforts of users like yourself.
So it's not just me that does not know all of the ins and outs in Stack Exchange!
18:24
@CharlesGreen Ha! I doubt even the devs know all the details. It's a complex beast.
@terdon yeah i get that point, this starwall just reminds me of the situation and that was after i havve spent almost 14 hours already on Au editing, reviewing and answering :)
@TheWanderer another new mispelling of Ubuntu sighted: Unbury
gives me the picture of a zombie climbing out of a grave (first though i had when readin that)
and another day with 200 reputation change :)
could go even 30 rep higher still because 30 rep of that 200 are accepts
@KazWolfe check edit history on that :P
26 mins ago, by Videonauth
@TheWanderer another new mispelling of Ubuntu sighted: Unbury
yeah i saw
why are they using linux even
Unburying 14. I purchased from Goodwill and they installed program. It was working fine until yesterday when an upgrade happened. — Deborah Hurt 20 mins ago
And variants!
But in the OP's defense, they're writing from a phone so that's almost certainly a stupid autocomplete thing.
@terdon i guess so too but still to funny :)
this is the picture i have had in my head as i firt have read this
wow in about 26 minutes im on the site for about 12 hours today :)
19:10
So.... Not to ask a really intrusive question... but I'm on the site a lot 'cause I'm mostly retired and trying to exercise my brain. I get the feeling a lot of the other people here have a job which causes them to be on this site?
I have one workspace for work and one with a browser mostly dedicated to SE/news. Whenever I need a short break, I switch :)
@CharlesGreen early retiree here too :) and computer fanatic :D
@terdon you need another monitor :P
@Seth More than 3?
@terdon Yes :P
Although that might actually become too much..
19:13
I would feel cripled if i would have to use a single monitor :P
I have 2 external ones + laptop. But I keep work and play on different workspaces. Wouldn't be able to do any work otherwise.
and i would miss my GX tablet which is in fact my third monitor
@terdon Fair enough! That is a good idea.
@terdon What size laptop?
14in
My favorite. Large enough to work on but small enough to be light.
14.4, or whatever it is.
terdo, does that count as an answer? unix.stackexchange.com/a/408260 i think it should be more a comment as an answer.
19:20
@Videonauth It requests information from OP, an answer shouldn't do that IMO.
Yah, that's a comment.
Ok without looking anyone take a guess who asked the first Question on Ask Ubuntu
@Videonauth Is that someone we're supposed to know?
yes and hes in this room actually
At least his picture is on the bar
19:34
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Q: How to get the "Your battery is broken" message to go away?

Nathan OsmanEvery time I turn on my computer, I see a message saying something like: Your battery may be old or broken. I am already aware that my battery is bad. How do I suppress this message?

/q/1
Interesting
Ticwatch S is $200 and it actually looks like it's pretty good
Oh. I sorted by date and went to the last page and got something else.
I wonder why.
when this question by date was created?
Yeah, that's not the first one @Videonauth, this is:
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Q: How to see packages installed on a given date using aptitude

MikeageDoes anyone know if there's an easy way to find a list of packages installed, sorted by date, when using aptitude (or apt-get)? I was installing a bunch of packages to try something new, and it didn't work out. I'd like to remove all of these packages, to get back some disk space. I've tried j...

No idea why the /1 question wouldn't be first. They probably changed the naming scheme at some point or something.
because the one you found was migrated from SO
might have happened quite a bit later
from its timeline
19:41
Ah, good catch
Right, all of the older ones were migrations.
my theory: if nathans was post with No. 1 and the actually newest question is q/982239 and since SE uses SQL to store data which might work with unique keying then we have all in all 982239 questions in the database for AU
were getting close to the million
this is roughly 2 questions per registred user as average
@Videonauth I didn't know Nathan's was the first to post a question here :o
I think it's funny how one of the answers suggests dual-booting with windows to suppress a battery warning
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like "oh, that message is so annoying, let me install another OS to get it away"
19:49
and Windows man, there should be a filter that downvoted any answer that has Windows on it
a single normal user to delete an answer ? ;)
guess @nathan has used HACks to do that
@Videonauth I think you're the only one of us three who can see that. ;P
@Videonauth :D
19:58
digging around is fun sometimes, it appears that the number is not tied to /q/ or /a/ it seems to indicate the overall number of database entries
regardless if its a question or an answer
if i use askubuntu.com/a/1 i end up on nathans post as well
@Videonauth Lol.
I think that was for testing something.
hehehe
leaves only one question open, why didnt you nominate to become normal mod on AU since you where most obviously pro tem already?
20:22
and there it is the cap again
two days in a rown capped out on reputation
and this time i ended up on a clean full thousand number
nice!
nearly 1k reputation in the past 7 days :)
last screenshot i too like this i was at exactly 6000 capped out on a day
 
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21:30
@NathanOsman, I'm trying to convince myself I didn't do a really bad deal to just sort of give the surf store website to get portfolio material lol
what do you think? I hadn't talked to them before doing the website, didn't feel like I was in a position to ask for anything
21:51
I've done that before. I designed something for a company without telling them and then sent it to them. Never heard back.
@NathanOsman did they use it?
I talked to one of the guys from the store personally, he is supposed to talk with the others about putting the website up but I kind of said I did it more to show my work with no intention of asking money for it, so I don't think I'll get anything back. I left the files there so he could show the others
to be honest I really didn't do it for any money, I think I just didn't expect he was going to accept it for free so easily lol
22:34
@IanC No, I never sent it to them - just a preview image.
@NathanOsman good call, though I think if you sent it and they used without permission it would make a solid law suit, but that would be a big head ache
I think I'm going to have to change the font I'm using in another project because of a small license detail
it's free for commercial use, but it states "No modification allowed", and it doesn't have the portuguese accentuation. Guess if I add them it would be a copyright infringement
user136984
22:58
19k at last! :D
congrats!
user136984
23:21
Thanks! :)
user136984
@IanC: How are you?
@ParanoidPanda I'm fine, a little rushed week but all good
how about you?
user136984
@IanC: Yeah, better than before, I got ill with a chest infection 2 weeks back.
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Q: How do I recursively download pkg-config dependencies on Ubuntu 17.10?

IrrationalityAs some of you might know, the development packages in Debian-based distros do not come with a .pc file for use with pkg-config. This can make building software that looks for those files really frustrating. I am trying to build WebKitGTK+ on Ubuntu 17.10. Is there any way I can download all the...

@ParanoidPanda hope you're recovering well by now!
user136984
23:32
Yes, I am, thank you! :)

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