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Q: ordered list format feature request -- subtopic numbering

Introduction: While writing a response to a question, I came to a situation where making a sublist improved readability of the post. This works: topic subtopic subsubtopic subtopic topic Although the indentation helps, this could present some confusion between topic and subtopic. Thi...

TheWanderer

02:15

wait a second

The Flash just used "Spidey Sense"

is DC allowed to do that?

Thomas Ward

waits exactly one second, then throws @TheWanderer into the void

TheWanderer

oh dear

Kaz Wolfe

02:33

/usr/sbin/everythingsonfire

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gansub

02:48

@ThomasWard hello

Thomas Ward

03:24

hi

Nathan Osman

05:25

@KazWolfe Yubikeys seem to work on Android via USB OTG now in Chrome.

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Q: Ubuntu sudo error

Errors Not able to login to user account as it is not visible when switching on the laptop Guest login is also not possible and it is running in the loop and displaying the same login page. Sudo is missing On clicking ctrl+alt+f4, takes to terminal where a username and password is asked which i...

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Q: mount: wrong fs type (VFAT, Ubuntu VM on macOS, SD card)

I am trying to install Arch Linux on a Raspberry Pi B. I am doing this in an Ubuntu VirtualBox VM (trying Ubuntu instead of installing to free up space). I have followed this tutorial to get the SD card available on Ubuntu. The SD card is available at /dev/sdb. Now I am following the Arch Linux...

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Q: Apache Common Document root , Different virtual Host, Different accessible files

I had my LFCE exam and i stacked on a question. Question requested to have apache2 installed with 2 virtual host. site1.example.com and site2.example.com. Both virtual hosts share the Document Root /var/www/html/. . also requested to have 2 different files in document root. test_page1.html and...

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Q: Ubuntu 14.04 - Slow Boot

I have an ubuntu 14.04 server, the server will be in a parking to manage it with a software. When I turn ON ACPI, my server took more than 2minutes to boot, else it takes only 30-40secondes. I need to have ACPI ON because when I push the power button it needs to send the request to shut down an...

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cl-netbox

11:10

Hello :)

dessert

@cl-netbox Hi!

cl-netbox

11:46

@dessert Oh ... sound notification doesn't seem to work ... good morning to you ! :)

David Foerster

14:05

Hi all, hi @cl-netbox!

Videonauth

o/

Videonauth

14:35

i dont wont install or re-install, I wonna make an upgrade 1 action in the terminal — ultimatum 17 mins ago

sighs

David Foerster

I want a pony and I don't want to lift a finger getting it. Who's going to give me my pony? — David Foerster 58 secs ago

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@Videonauth: I VTC'd.

Videonauth

yeah me too

i was considering putting all the lines form my answer i linked first into a one liner and post it as answer :P

1 action in terminal :P

cl-netbox

14:53

@DavidFoerster Hi David :) nice to see you :) Good afternoon :) How are you doing ? How is the weather in Berlin today ?

@Videonauth Good afternoon to you too :)

Videonauth

:) thank you to you too

cl-netbox

@Videonauth Thank you :) Still snowy there in NRW ?

David Foerster

@cl-netbox Dark and grey, some snow left. Yesterday was nice though. How are things?

Videonauth

no most if it is gone sadly

cl-netbox

@DavidFoerster Same here in the south ... dark, gray and very windy ... things are okay - today I got kernel 4.14 after upgrading my system. :)

dessert

15:08

@cl-netbox dark and grey in saxony as well…

cl-netbox

@dessert Are you living in the area of Dresden or in the area of Leipzig ?

dessert

@cl-netbox One wouldn't think that, but Saxony isn't just Dresden and Leipzig (and Chemnitz btw), I live exactly in the middle of those three. :)

cl-netbox

@dessert of course it isn't just those two, but they are the most famous ones. :) When I lived in Berlin, I was quite often in your area ... :)

dessert

@cl-netbox Well you were nearly right, I lived in Dresden until 2016 when I bought a three-sided half-timber farm and moved here.

David Foerster

@dessert What do you mean "three-sided"? Is the property shaped triangular?

cl-netbox

15:22

@dessert wow ... cool ... sound like you're living in a kind of castle. :)

dessert

@DavidFoerster No, three sides have (or have, only two are left) buildings, it's a rectangle

@cl-netbox No, it's more like a formerly rich farmer's house – not everybody likes wood and clay as much as I do. ^^

David Foerster

Great. My comment reached the star wall but was deleted.

cl-netbox

@DavidFoerster which comment ?

terdon

@DavidFoerster Well yes. It wasn't very constructive. Please don't leave comments like that.

Videonauth

cl-netbox

15:25

Hi terdon ! :)

terdon

hi

David Foerster

@terdon Hi! I understand as much. I just feels odd that the starred link is now dead.

terdon

@DavidFoerster Yeah. And don't get me wrong, your comment describes the situation perfectly. It's just a bit more honest than helpful :)

dessert

@DavidFoerster Aren't you able to see deleted content once you have like 1 million rep points?

terdon

@dessert Not comments.

David Foerster

15:27

@dessert Well, I don't have that much. I'm not sure anybody does.

@dessert The user with the most reputation on AU is Oli with ~200k: askubuntu.com/users?tab=Reputation&filter=all

Videonauth

yep and i think john skeet is the one with the most reputation network wirde and even he is short of a million

Jon Skeet, Reading, United Kingdom

992k 601 7329 8044

c# java .net linq generics asp.net xml

David Foerster

@Videonauth The profile picture is gold.

dessert

@terdon Then how do we know what happens when anybody breaks the million? ;D

Videonauth

@DavidFoerster yep :)

David Foerster

@Videonauth Considering that he earns 150–200 rep/day, it shouldn't take him much more than 6–7 weeks.

Videonauth

15:38

@DavidFoerster true that

terdon

@dessert We have something to look forward to!

TheWanderer

@NathanOsman so inner classes in Java can actually act as a sort of obfuscation. If you decompile to Smali, there are no inner classes, and everything is in separate files. Makes it really annoying.

dessert

16:14

@DavidFoerster You commented and voted on the question, do you mind adding an answer on the meta question as well? meta.askubuntu.com/q/17515/507051

David Foerster

@dessert I actually prefer muru's stance and voted for it.

dessert

@DavidFoerster OK, thank you!

terdon

Yeah, same here. It would have been better to just add your (very good) answer to the original post, I think.

Also, changing the "canonical" will be a real pain. That would mean we'd have to go and manually reopen all of the questions closed as dupes of that one, only to close them again as dupes of the new one.

dessert

I realize that, sorry for keeping you guys busy with that – I'm a newbie after all…

terdon

@dessert No need to apologize for trying to help!

The rules of SE are, uhm, let's say not always obvious :)

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dessert

16:19

@terdon Copy and star that.

Byte Commander

16:36

@Videonauth @DavidFoerster It's from How to Save the Princess in 8 Programming Languages about C#

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David Foerster

@ByteCommander Ugh, I hate when mostly static, stateless web sites require cookies. And with the new add-on framework of Firefox there's no simple way to change per-site cookie settings.

I like the Lisp edition.^^

Videonauth

@DavidFoerster welcome to the new firefox, we know taking away all usful api calls sucks but we dont care, live with it :P

David Foerster

My Python codes looks like that too on occasion.

Videonauth

$ apt-mark showhold
firefox
firefox-locale-de
firefox-locale-en
xul-ext-ubufox

:P

David Foerster

@Videonauth What's really weird is, that there is an easily accessible UI to change per-site cookie settings in the site preference (when one clicks on the site icon before the URL in the address bar), but only for sites that are already on the exception list. Why not enable it for all sites?

Videonauth

16:45

Don't ask me, i had a reason to stick to 56 for now :) the 57 might be faster and more performant but its less useful to me if i cant use about 1/2 of my add ons anymore

David Foerster

Luckily there was no crucial add-on that broke for me without a replacement. It even made me migrate from Adblock Plus & NoScript to uBlock, which is much better in most aspects incl. UI and performance imho.

The only thing I still miss is a way to disable Ctrl+Q or at least have a confirmation dialogue.

Byte Commander

@DavidFoerster uMatrix

David Foerster

@ByteCommander I thought about it but it seems a bit overkill for what I intend to do.

Byte Commander

/shrug

I got used to it now that NoScript became horrible

It's actually quite nice after you got the grip on it

Videonauth

@ByteCommander yep tested noscript in a vm and it is nohwere as good as before

David Foerster

17:20

I like the new hair cut that I gave myself. :-) It always takes a few weeks each time until my hair settles into a lasting shaping under its new lowered weight. Now that time has passed and it looks better than right after the cut – as usual.

Now I need to decide if I want to re-dye my hair or leave the grey strands.

pro: looks better, contra: few people are tall enough to see my hairline from an angle that makes the grey apparent and most of those are male and thus outside of my dating target group.^^

not (yet) contra: I look still youthful enough overall to not appeal to women who are into older men.

Charles Green

17:37

@DavidFoerster I'm having occasional issues with uMatrix, mostly because some google search references get to a site that umatrix blocks completely.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How to customize Ubuntu on laptop lid close behavior

I would like to learn how to customize the behavior of Ubuntu when the laptop lid closes. I can only guess that a script is run when the laptop lid is closed. Is there a tutorial/literature explaining what script gets run upon the laptop lid closing / re-opening? I would like to ultimately custo...

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Videonauth

@terdon can you please open a chat on this question:askubuntu.com/q/985288

or @ThomasWard

Thomas Ward

you have summoned chaos

done

chaos shall consume thy soul now.

David Foerster

Who stopped the dancing piper that keeps the God of mad chaos, the all consuming evil in his raving slumber?

Thomas Ward

@DavidFoerster It's @Videonauth's fault.

Videonauth

in Charcoal HQ, 15 secs ago, by SmokeDetector

@Videonauth It's Ferrybig's fault.

smokey disagrees :P

Thomas Ward

18:05

Smokey isn't the one who caused chaos.

Smokey is actually my minion and needs punished now.

YOU on the other hand

prodded the evil one.

IanC

18:26

@NathanOsman I'm sorry I didn't answer before, saw your message but I didn't manage to get back to you those last couple of days. I took a look at DigitalOcean and Scaleway prices. The former seems more expensive than the alternatives I've here, because the dollar quotation is a little high lately in my country ($10 seems to be the lowest they got). Scaleway on the other hand seems to have a very good cost, maybe better than the options I had researched here.

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Q: ssh -X - disables menu options

My laptop is loaded with Ubuntu 14.04. I have configured a server with Ubuntu 14.04. I am able to ssh as well as ssh -X into the server from my machine. On both my machine as well as the server, I have installed a program downloaded from Github. The application in the server opens through a ...

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Videonauth

19:30

Ever heard of chocolate with chili?

mhmm it is actually quite tasty

dessert

@Videonauth I tried and didn't like it, but I dislike hot food in general…

Videonauth

i just tried it first time

well it is not too hot but has an interesting note

David Foerster

@Videonauth I tried it. It's a curious taste and I don't dislike it. I just like other bitter chocolate flavours better.

Videonauth

yes me too as i diabetic :), it has quite a high carbs footprint

dessert

2CELLOS - Thunderstruck [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

►

Videonauth

19:39

i normaly only buy chocolate with a very very high cocoa percentage since its the other parts which make chocolate actually bad for diabetics

@dessert yep that one is great

Fabby

20:14

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Still working on a DR Test. Will do afterwards if I don't fall asleep face-down on my keyboard...

>:-) ;-) >:-)

Videonauth

Fabby :)

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Q: How to print using localhost:9100 RAW without being encoded as pdf or FlateDecode?

How do I print using localhost:9100 without it being encoded in FlateDecode? I just want to have a simpler encoding. So I may be able to use the byte and be able to pull out the original text. eg. test.txt TEST101 localhost:9100 b'[...]TEST101[...]' or I may need to decode it. But you ...

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Q: If people have put answers as comments, is it OK for me to copy their comment to an answer myself?

I encountered a question where a person had put an answer in the comments, then the OP had commented again saying that answer worked, and thanks. Here was the specific question, but I am asking in a general sense. I commented to remind people to make proper answers instead of leaving the answer...

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Q: Ralink MT7601U (148f:7601) Wi-Fi adapter installation

I am trying to install a Ralink wifi adapter in Armbian. I have look this here but it did not lsusb Bus 004 Device 003: ID 148f:7601 Ralink Technology, Corp. MT7601U Wireless Adapter OS Version: Armbian 5.35 Bananapi Ubuntu xenial default 3.4.113

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