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Q: sudo -l says i cant sudoedit a file, but wont let me?

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I am logged into my system, and when i type: sudo -l it shows: $ sudo -l Matching Defaults entries for werkzeug on ekzameno: env_reset, mail_badpass, secure_path=/usr/local/sbin\:/usr/local/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin\:/sbin\:/bin User user1 may run the following commands on WINNING: (...

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Q: HDMI Projecting: Ubuntu has some issues, Fedora does not. Trying to figure out why

5:40 AM

I'm trying (and so far, failing) to find a solution to an issue I'm having. Some context, we have an assortment of different projectors, all HDMI, and an assortment of laptop hardware. The problematic projector in question is an InFocus IN126STa. What happens is when I plug in via HDMI, it picks ...

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Nathan Osman

6:52 AM

Okay, this is the funniest thing I've seen in... a long time.

facebook.com/unixstickers/photos/…

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A Perfect Circle- Let's Have A War

10:18 AM

> Let's have a war,
> Sell the rights to the networks,
> Let's have a war,
> Let our wallets get fat like last time,
> Let's have a war,
> Give guns to the queers,
> Let's have a war,
> The enemy's within

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10:32 AM

Good morning :)

good morning @dessert @cl-netbox

@Videonauth Hi :) Everything okay ? :)

sure, just rolled out of my bed :)

@Videonauth me too (3 hours ago) ... kernel 4.14.16 arrived on my system :)

did you see the article i linked a few days ago that 18.04 will probably ship with 4.15 ?

10:41 AM

@Videonauth yes I did ... why not ? in time of 18.04 release that kernel might be not "the newest" ... ;P

true, the kernel number switched quickly in the past year

far quicker as the year before

@Videonauth I can't understand why Canonical doesn't always provide the latest stable kernel ... think of the latest trouble with Meltdown and Spectre.

well no clue :)

stability concerns maybe?

all i know is compiling a new kernel, must fit to the libc used etc and its not only compiling the kernel, it means as well compiling the whole base as new

@Videonauth what ? not a valid reason ! fedora gets that done without problems, so why should this be a concern or an issue for ubuntu ? :)

like i said no clue ;)

rest was only me guessing around

10:48 AM

@Videonauth :D

arch is still on 4.14.15

but can't be long till it get 4.14.16

@Videonauth that's a thing ... normally arch is one of the first distros to provide new packages ... :)

@Videonauth I think so too :)

11:18 AM

By the way @Videonauth - did you already install the new NVIDIA drivers 390.25 from the long-lived branch ? I tested them two days ago and they are running without problems. :)

uuhhh im still using the repository provided 384.101

@Videonauth Here are the release notes -> nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/130646/en-us

Don'T see anything new which would relate to my kind of GPU tho

but will consider it

@Videonauth mainly new drivers bring bug fixes along (mostly hidden under the hood), that's why using them is an advantage. :)

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Q: ubuntu 17.10 detects larger monitor than it is

12:46 PM

I have my pc connected to a 42 inch LED TV and ubuntu 17.10 detects it at 52 inches. therefore I do not see all the elements of the desktop. xrandr shows me the following: Screen 0: minimun 320x200, current 1920x1080, maximun 8192x8192 XWAYLAND0 connected 1920x1080 + 0 + 0 (normal left inverte...

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Byte Commander

2:46 PM

Holy cow, why did that post get so flooded with upvotes? askubuntu.com/a/1001350/367990

like +150 in 4 days

doesn't even really answer the question

The question is blatantly off topic and too broad, too.

@ByteCommander That's what I thought – a meh answer to a different question, DV.

@ByteCommander That's what happens to HNQ sometimes, lots of people come by, read “virtualbox” and like it.

It doesn't seem to be in HNQ though, and it wasn't tweeted, so what happened?

AH no, it was tweeted. Sigh.

Byte Commander

It was in HNQ, that's where I found it just minutes ago

The twitter bot is the second worst thing after HNQ for getting crap questions a lot of attention.

@ByteCommander Oh, OK. I couldn't find it there.

Byte Commander

2:57 PM

Btw does the chat twitter bot still exist?

Dunno. I think that was @NathanOsman's thing.

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Q: Linux script not running on start up

4:08 PM

Hello and thank you for being so helpful. I am trying to run a script at startup that reduces the power limits of my gpus. The shell command is in init.d and I have tried using symlink to rc1 and rc3. The shell command has also been made executable using Chmod +x. I am running Ubuntu 16.04 as wel...

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Nathan Osman

4:42 PM

@ByteCommander yup, it does. @ChattyCapybaras

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The tweets have slowed down since y'all aren't as funny as before.

Nathan Osman

5:42 PM

Penguin Walk

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Got to see that earlier in the week ---^

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Q: How to dissect the functionality of a PPA?

7:23 PM

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I'd like to understand how PPAs such as this work that display a license: https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/java Where do you get started in tracing through how this works? Is there a source file similar to Homebrew formulae that I'm missing?

debian ubuntu apt ppa

I wonder if askubuntu.com/q/228304 should be merged with askubuntu.com/q/814, what do you guys think?

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9:02 PM

hey guys

quick one

I'm trying to install paramiko

but I got the following errors

andykw:/home/andykw]$ python3 -m pip install paramiko
Downloading/unpacking paramiko
  Downloading paramiko-2.4.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (192kB): 192kB downloaded
Downloading/unpacking cryptography>=1.5 (from paramiko)
  Downloading cryptography-2.1.4.tar.gz (441kB): 441kB downloaded
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_andykw/cryptography/setup.py) egg_info for package cryptography
    error in cryptography setup command: Invalid environment marker: python_version < '3'
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:

I could not find anything on this

error in cryptography setup command: Invalid environment marker: python_version < '3'
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:

@AndyK seems like it's not for python 3, but only python 2 available instead, doesn't it?

@dessert sure...?

or the other way around, but you did try it with python 3

I did that too

pip3 install paramiko

same result

ok, how about pip install paramiko?

9:08 PM

paramiko.org

I want to use paramiko for python3

oh, ok

@dessert no worries mate

@AndyK how about installing the dependency only first? pip3 install cryptography

or pip install cryptography – I don't know whether python 3 paramiko maybe also works with python 2 cryptography (worth a shot)

@dessert same stuff

andykw:/home/andykw]$ pip3 install cryptography
Downloading/unpacking cryptography
  Downloading cryptography-2.1.4.tar.gz (441kB): 441kB downloaded
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_andykw/cryptography/setup.py) egg_info for package cryptography
    error in cryptography setup command: Invalid environment marker: platform_python_implementation != 'PyPy'
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    error in cryptography setup command: Invalid environment marker: platform_python_implementation != 'PyPy'

and with pip?

you could build it yourself as a last resort: cryptography.io/en/latest/installation/…

9:18 PM

I tried that sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python3-dev

to build it

but to no avail

I think you should add a question with the whole error outputs.