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Q: How to restore a specific script from the original repo?

ramgorurI am running Ubuntu 16.04 and let's say I have done some drastic modifications to the /etc/init.d/halt script. Now I want to restore it to the original version. How do I do that?

 
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GUUUUYS.
Reason #816 to move to Canada - pay for a bucket of chicken with Bitcoin. https://twitter.com/kfc_canada/status/951550065411313664
You can buy KFC with Bitcoin now, lol.
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01:47
o_O
lol seems like KFC is taking after Wendy's with the sassy social media reps
It's all the rage now.
All of the classic brands are going to be irrelevant if they don't jump on board.
Spellcheck is broken in Firefox?
Must've broken with Quantum
Apparently I needed to install this: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/…
I was right!
Works now. Woot.
02:24
ah, cool. at least I didn't have to change it from uk to us this update ;)
02:44
sup @Mateo
hi @RobotHumans
not much
having fun with webapp creator in my spare time
Interesting. I'm working on a sort of webapp on a beagleboard that controls a crock pot.
Ever have one of those conference calls where you wonder if them talking about RDX getting fired is referring to you being dynamite - all the work done at once or it being an actual contracted company?
and work news: albertsons.com/… we got bought, so fun stuff ahead
@RobotHumans hm, so between being just awesome, or referencing a disruptive effect?
@Mateo not sure. It's my job to point out bugs. So, I get paid to be a disruptive effect - in effect. pardon the pun.
@RobotHumans ooo, sous vide?
was it you or Jorge or maybe Oli who introduced me to that awesome sous vide recipe
02:53
@Mateo sous vide crock pot and countertop still with perfect temperature control with modular components you can snatch out and repurpose for other projects to suit home cooks, home shiners, home makers, repairs, etc etc etc.
@Mateo Oli mentioned the sous vide thing. I just added a dimension to it.
cool
I won't pay for a $145 dollar thermostat that controls current when I can get a 5 dollar board and a 4 dollar thermostat with a 15 dollar electrical receptacle controller, and have it controlled by a smartphone and push notifications. I mean, who would. It has a LOT of selling points.
Wife won't let you buy more hardware? buy this appliance. Not only is it modular for repairs, but we use all open source hardware and software. We also let you rip it open and use the parts for whatever you want. We also let you use it as a starter project to get familiar with hardware. We also let you use it to buy a bbgw without buying one. etc etc
@Mateo - it ticks a LOT of boxes.
yep, Ive considered getting more serious with it too, I made this recipe in my parents convection oven seriouseats.com/2013/10/…
it did quite well with a pot of water on the lowest setting
well, there's a large craft brewing industry here. so, a multipurpose device would be nice for consumers. an adapter to hold the handle on to a copper pipe inside where the handle is supposed to be and all off the shelf parts would be diabolical.
like, a local craft brewer said "we don't do liquor not because our license doesn't allow it, but because we're scared of blinding people." and I said something like "well with a slow cooker model, you can wait until a scale stops gaining weight in between methanol and ethanol temperatures, then just nail it down. you couldn't possibly blind people"
ordered parts on tuesday.
awesome, post updates. and you are making me hungry :)
03:12
I'm working on it.
 
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Hi , Is it possible to create bond with single NIC
Will it work
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Q: Disagree with Low Quality review

derHugoI was on this Low Quality review I wouldn't say this fulfills the community rules for asking a good question: No research, no given example, no attempt to solve the issue, not exactly clear to me where the problem is. But the review tells me I'm wrong because 8 people liked the question. So po...

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hi
Any recommendation of a case tracking software for a doctor who need to track, note progress of patients ?
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hi i have newly install ubuntu 14.02 on my systeam . i have 500 gb hard disk and 4 gb ram but my ubuntu system is hang
@santosh There's no Ubuntu 14.02, do you mean 14.04? Why do you want to use the oldest still supported version of Ubuntu? I have a machine with 1,5 GB RAM running 16.04 smoothly, a newer version does not necessarily need more system resources.
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Q: Does this sound a bit condescending?

pomskyI discovered this old answer thanks to an edit suggestion which may look somewhat unnecessary. The suggestion was to remove the following phrase from the answer and read a basic bash programming manual and along with the comment Removed unhelpful and borderline rude comment. The rest o...

 
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@ByteCommander feeling old ?!
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kindof
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@dessert @santosh or try Lubuntu? Never tried it but should run faster, though 4GB of ram is more than enough, I think that's what I've here actually
good morning folks
@IanC you can check that with free -m
I'm running Lubuntu here btw, maybe I should've mentioned that. ;P
3744 total
that's what we call 4GB ;D
Hi all!
…and keep it classy!
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Q: How to gently turn down a female coworker who asked for a sperm donation?

SteveI have a female coworker (superior technically but in another department.) We've worked together for about 4.5 years and have been become pretty good friends, we'll always chat in the kitchen at work and occasionally see each other outside of work for drinks or whatnot. Recently she confided ...

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@dessert hahaha, I wonder why it isn't a rounded 4000MB instead, or even 4096MB
The gibibyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The binary prefix gibi means 230, therefore one gibibyte is equal to 1073741824bytes = 1024 mebibytes. The unit symbol for the gibibyte is GiB. It is one of the units with binary prefixes defined by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in 1998. The gibibyte is closely related to the gigabyte (GB), which is defined by the IEC as 109 bytes = 1000000000bytes, 1GiB ≈ 1.074GB. 1024 gibibytes are equal to one tebibyte. In the context of computer memory, gigabyte and GB are customarily used to mean 10243 (230) byte...
if you want it rounded, use free -g
(:D)
@dessert or free -h
free also has a --si flag for powers of 1000.
so what the manufactors announce is actually the memory in GiB?
Whichever sounds BIGGER
So yes, usually (always?) GiB
12:52
oh, I think I mixed them
1GiB == 1,074GB, so if they say 4GB it would be 3,72GiB, so free is the one using GiB I guess
Ah yes, sorry. I always mix them up too.
But, basically, The Right One® is to use the multiple of 1024. But that's the very technical thing and we are used to multiples of 10, so that's what you see most often.
Actually, it's also often a psychological thing.
And leads to this sort of confusion:
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Q: Why is the size given by lsblk different from that of lsblk -b

user624703I have a disk that appear with 134G with the command lsblk but a higher number with lsblk -b (about 10G more) Why do I have a different size with lsblk and lsblk -b? #lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 134G 0 disk [...] # lsblk -b NAME ...

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As a developer, if you put a magic number constant anywhere, and it's completely random, people will ask why it's that value. If it's a power of 2 though, people seem to believe there must be a deeper reason to it and not ask.
if we only had two fingers we probably would think 1024 is better than 1000
to be honest I think I got so used to 1024/2048/4096 that I think it's very odd to give round numbers to memory like 1000
To make the confusion complete the installed RAM size also differs from the RAM available to Linux, that's why you don't get a total 4000 with free -m --si. It's 3926 on my machine.
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A: Human readable system memory reading from CLI?

Stéphane ChazelasOn Linux, read x memtotal x < /proc/meminfo Would store the total mem amount in $memory in number of kiB. That's the amount of memory available to Linux, the same as reported by free. If you want the installed RAM, you could do things like: awk '{s+=$0};END{print s}' /sys/bus/mc*/devices/di...

@dessert any idea why that happens? Part of the memory is reserved for solely hardware functions?
@IanC I'm clueless.
@dessert Wait, what? Where do you get that from? Stéphane doesn't make any such claim in his answer.
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> That's the amount of memory available to Linux, the same as reported by free.
@dessert Yes. The same as reported by free. What makes you think there is actually more? What am I missing?
second sentence – or do you understand him differently?
@dessert I understand that he's saying this is the available memory. I don't see anything suggesting that it's different to the actual amount of RAM.
3926 KiB isn't exactly 4 GiB – wait, is it? oO
For example, on my laptop:
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I thought Stéphane was a girl, but if it's French it actually sounds like a dude name
No, hang on.
@IanC It is. Stéphanie is the female version.
@IanC I thought that too in the beginning!
@dessert KiB?
You mean MiB?
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That's the amount of memory available to Linux, the same as reported by free.

If you want the installed RAM, you could do things like:
```
It's 3926 Megabyte (powers of 1000, --si flag) and 3834 Mebibyte (powers of 1024).
13:13
maybe that memory is part of a conspiracy
the NSA is using it
@IanC that's where I got that idea!
implies those differ, doesn't it?
yeah, I understood that too
I see. Yes, it does, doesn't it.
But that's not the case on my system:
$ free -h
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            31G         11G        2.5G        1.8G         16G         19G
$ free -h --si
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            32G         12G        2.6G        1.9G         17G         19G
what's the output of free -m --si and free -m for you?
And this is what lshw reports (2x16G RAM sticks):
     *-memory
          description: System Memory
          physical id: 7
          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 32GiB
        *-bank:0
             description: Chip DDR4 Synchronous 2133 MHz (0.5 ns)
             product: HMA82GS6MFR8N-TF
             vendor: SK Hynix
             physical id: 0
             serial: 7162775D
             slot: ChannelA-DIMM0
             size: 16GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 2133MHz (0.5ns)
        *-bank:1
             description: SODIMM DDR4 Synchronous 2133 MHz (0.5 ns)
$ free -m --si
                  total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
    Mem:          32805       12441        2543        1954       17820       19871
    Swap:         15684           0       15684
$ free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:          32036       12168        2430        1943       17438       19351
Swap:         15316           0       15316
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now that's strange: sudo lshw gives me 4GiB while plain lshw gives 3834MiB
the same value free -m reported
Hello :)
but 4GiB are 4096MiB – and that's where I got that theory from. ;P
@cl-netbox hi!
@dessert Good afternoon :)
I think memory is never measured in GB/MB, but always in GiB/MiB btw.
hello @cl-netbox, all good?
13:30
@terdon 32 GiB equals 32768 MiB, so you're missing 0.732 MiB too there.
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@IanC Hi Ian :) yes, all good - thank you :) hope you are fine too, are you ?
@dessert Hmm, yes. But am I actually missing them? Or is that the "real" number? Linux does reserve some RAM for disk caching, but I would expect that to be included in the "Total" value of free.
@cl-netbox yeah, all right around here!
@terdon good question – total should mean total IMO…
@IanC I'm glad to read that ! :)
Hi terdon :)
 
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Q: SFTP with Ubuntu Files (Nautilus) changing permissions on Ubuntu 17.10

Ben DoeI am connecting to my servers over SSH and SFTP to manage my files. I am editing files with Sublime Text 3 using Nautilus as a my FTP client. Everything is fine and the files write to the server. The issue is when I start looking at the file permissions as see that they have been changed from w...

 
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Q: Ubuntu-Nginx lightweight server environment setup

ArcticoolingPlease review the following Bash script that uses to establish a "lightweight" Ubuntu-Nginx server environment mainly aimed to run small WordPress sites (about 5 plugins, about 25 webpages, about 25 images) on a cloud hosting platform. The BASHRC heredocument sets aliases for personal scripts I ...

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Q: disable invalid username logging in auth.log

vj2391Logging invalid usernames can result in logging failed passwords. Is there any way to silent these logs in /var/log/auth.log file ? This discussion:https://access.redhat.com/solutions/881103 in summary says there is no official solution. Any hacks ? Thanks. Invalid user vj from 10.10.10.10 input...

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Q: Do good quality answers on duplicate questions deserve reputation?

Mukesh Sai KumarRecently I came across a question, which was a duplicate of an already asked question here. The duplicate question had an overall negative score ( of -4), but the answers to that duplicate were upvoted (one had a score of 57 as of the time when I'm posting this question, while the top answer on t...

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How to proceed with askubuntu.com/q/995324/367990 ?
hrmmm
anyone here good at graphic design?
@NathanOsman maybe?
@ByteCommander eat it
hue
but do you think you can make me an app icon?
I dunno.
What does it do?
21:25
it's to add widgets to the V20/10's SignBoard
and I'm calling it BoredSigns
I was thinking like a wooden sign with a :/ face or something
Worth a try I guess.
I gotta head out soon, but I'll try to have something for you later today.
OK
thank
21:27
that's mad not bored
you guys think this is a good background for the feature image?
I have this whole collection of textures from a bundle deal when I bought Affinity
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Q: how to answer in ask ubuntu. call to action

Shireesh Kumari am unable to find call to action. does it need reputation.

21:36
what
How's that look?
oh cool Play lowered the screenshot requirement to 1
wait no they didn't
they lied
22:30
@TheWanderer when I read wood with face I thought this at first
is/was that cartoon popular in your country?
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'Evening
evening!
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man, between CSS template organization and size, should I tend to make it bigger but organized?
Any day
in my book maintainability trumps nearly everything
Great! I think I'll try to work a little bit on merging the two templates though, they repeat themselfs a LOT, but if I can't come up with something at least as organized as the other I'll leave as it is

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